Using fat to diagnose musculoskeletal disease
Doctors will soon be able to use fat to diagnose musculoskeletal disease within seconds and predict the risk of falls and fractures in older people,...
Australasia
The Australasia category highlights health, policy and social issues from across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region. It includes analysis of health system developments, research breakthroughs, public health priorities and lived experience from local settings, offering a regional lens on topics that matter to communities and practitioners in Australasia.
Tackling air pollution in new and innovative ways
Surrey and Wollongong to develop tools to improve ‘street canyon’ air quality: As cities across the globe reawaken from their COVID-19 lockdowns, researchers from the...
Sepsis – preventing the “inflammatory reflex”
Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, is the leading cause of death in intensive care units. Globally, it causes more than 11 million deaths each...
VR to help spinal-injured people re-learn how to move
VR rehabilitation: An innovative Curtin University research project that uses an interactive, home-based virtual reality (VR) simulation or ‘serious game’ to improve upper limb function...
Curtin anti-doping education program
An international research project led by Curtin University and funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed and successfully tested an intervention program to...
Tackling male suicide and self harm in Australia
Scaling up efforts to tackle male self harm: Men and boys account for 75 per cent of deaths from suicide, making them a key group...
Monitoring mutations to help vaccine development
New tool outsmarts COVID-19 virus to help vaccine development: Melbourne researchers have developed a tool to monitor mutations that make it difficult to develop coronavirus...
Gout medicine halts progression of coronary disease
Common medicine used to treat gout found to prevent progression of coronary disease – international study published in New England Journal of Medicine by Perth...
Onshore manufacture for vaccine candidates in Australia
CSL to manufacture and supply University of Queensland and Oxford University vaccine candidates for Australia Heads of Agreement signed between CSL and the Australian Government...
Protein discovery could improve type 2 diabetes treatment
A world first discovery of how a protein works in the liver could lead to a more effective type 2 diabetes drug. The researchers say...
