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Medical School and health news

  • First steps of Parkinson's disease
  • Sydney researchers secure funding to further HIV education
  • Excellence award for Professor Kathryn North
  • Doctors and nurses key to preventing vaccine refusal outbreaks
  • Nurses contribute to cancer research
  • Retrieval run - Medical students raising money for the RFDS
  • New cancer study finds benefit in old therapy
  • Rotary funds help concentration study
  • Professor Patrick Tam elected Royal Society Fellow
  • Architecture accolade for Brain and Mind Research Institute building
  • Tobacco lobby's plain-pack threat not based on reality
  • Indigenous graduates pave the way
  • Sleep researcher wins prestigious international award
  • Health Sciences celebrates excellence
  • International Council of Nurses gets a taste of Australian health workforce reform
  • Healthy planet, healthy people

News from the Research Institutes

  • First international trial shows polypill halves predicted heart and stroke risk - cancer benefit also now expected
  • PhD awarded to exceptional student studying enzymes suspected to control tumour growth and liver disease
  • The George Institute: New Targets for Reducing Road Deaths in Australia
  • The George Institute: Hypertension day 17 May - New research reveals Australia lagging on salt reduction
  • Centenary Institute: Reprogrammed cells repair damaged livers – new research ‘the holy grail’ of liver transplant treatment

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