Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
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Sugar, salt and fat taxes could save billions in health costs: study
Australia could save $3.4 billion in healthcare costs by introducing a package of taxes on sugar, salt, saturated fat and sugary drinks, while subsidising fruits and vegetables, University of Melbourne modelling shows.
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Memo to Australian kids: what exactly is it that you do around here?
The University of Melbourne and Australia’s national broadcaster are teaming up to solve one of the biggest mysteries at the heart of family life: what chores do kids do around the home?
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Research reveals contaminated machines used in cardiac surgery cause infection in patients
Melbourne researchers have used cutting-edge genomics technology to show a strain of a bacteria can be transmitted to patients from machines commonly used to regulate body temperature during cardiac surgery.
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Cabbies’ health the focus of smartphone app trial
A smartphone app will target taxi drivers’ ‘downtime’ waiting for their next passenger, to support them with tools and messages to improve their health.
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Predicting premmies: one simple test to revolutionise childbirth in Australia
A simple bedside test for pregnant women to accurately predict early labour is under development at the University of Melbourne.
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Australian-first trial offers faster treatment for PTSD
An Australian-first research program will help improve treatment for up to one million Australians with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Jekyll and Hyde cells: their role in brain injury and disease revealed
New research has shown how normally helpful brain cells can turn rogue and kill off other brain cells following injury or disease.
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University to join Epilepsy Centre Without Walls in $28m global research push
People with epilepsy acquired following brain trauma are the focus of a new $28 million global push for a long-awaited research breakthrough to develop treatments that for the first time could prevent or mitigate this disabling and potentially life-threatening condition.
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New leadership appointments to Stem Cells Australia initiative
Professor Melissa Little has been named the new head of the Stem Cells Australia initiative by the University of Melbourne.
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Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre poised to accelerate new treatments
Following an international search, eminent Australian clinician scientist Professor Grant McArthur has been appointed to lead the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre as Executive Director.
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Reflux tablet could save 60 000 lives lost to dangerous pregnancy condition
An international collaboration led by the Translational Obstetrics Group (TOG) based at Mercy Hospital for Women has discovered a treatment that could save many of the 60 000 lives lost each year to preeclampsia.
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Bee alert but not alarmed: humble bee among Australia’s most lethal creatures
An Australian-first national analysis of 13 years’ data on bites and stings from venomous creatures reveals Australia’s towns and cities are a hot-spot for encounters.
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New chair of palliative medicine appointed in Victoria
Following an international search, local expert Professor Jennifer Philip has been appointed to the prestigious position of Chair of Palliative Medicine.
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Heart surgery goes high-tech with Victoria’s first dissolvable metallic stent
Cardiologists at St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne are using the latest in stent technology designed to reduce complications from a common cardiac procedure.
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Christmas holidays linked to rise in heart attacks
University of Melbourne researchers have found an increase in heart attacks around the festive period may be due more difficult access to hospitals, combined with stress, an excess of alcohol and a fatty diet.
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Medical research shines in latest NHMRC funding
Researchers investigating influenza, multiple sclerosis and Indigenous health will share in $60 million funding from the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council grants.
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Research exposes isolation and abuse among immigrant and refugee women
A two-year study with 46 family violence survivors from more than 20 countries has found common threads in how their abusers use cultural and physical isolation to prevent them from seeking help.
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Investigation into child deaths from family violence shows need for workforce training
A leading Victorian family violence expert has responded to the Victorian Commission on Children and Young People report Neither Seen nor Heard, which exposes multiple ‘systemic issues’ with the current child protection system.
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Pilot study to test coaching to help recovery from SA bushfires
Community members trained as coaches will work with people affected by South Australia’s catastrophic 2015 Pinery bushfire in a pilot study to test an emotional recovery program for trauma survivors.
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Melbourne scientists publish evidence for world-first therapeutic dental vaccine
A world-first vaccine developed by Melbourne scientists, which could eliminate or at least reduce the need for surgery and antibiotics for severe gum disease, has been validated by research published this weekend in a leading international journal.