February 2010
Medical School News
- Welcome to new and continuing students
- Grant success for the School
- Multimillion dollar funding for research into the 'Australian cancer'
- Another STEP forward in understanding the safety and efficacy of screening and testing for disease
- Breakthrough for burns victims
- We must guarantee training places for all
- Gene defect for new disease discovered at Concord Hospital
- New evidence about placebo – the mind-brain interaction which unlocks the body’s own healing mechanisms
- New breakthrough in diagnosis of ADHD
- Combined University of Sydney PhD/Dermatology Fellowship Training Program
- Học Mãi Banquet
- 2010 Sydney Medical Program cohort diversity
- Researchers strike gold - saffron found to help vision loss in elderly
- Male Italian-born immigrants more prone to depression
- Cancer tumour research receives $4m grant
- Replacement skin offers hope for burn victims
News from the Research Institutes
- Woolcock Institute: Norbert Berend elected President of FIRS
- The George Institute: Back care doesn't measure up
- The George Institute - New research: time for Australia to target salt
- Woolcock Institute opens an office in China
Events
Jill Gordon will discuss literature and medicine at the 'passions outside medicine' symposium on 12 March from 1pm. This will be followed by the Elizabeth Blackburn lecture and the Sydney Medical School/Medical Alumni Association dinner. More
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