Surgery Category

Surgical techniques, innovations and opinions about best practice.

Patients should lose weight before bariatric surgery

Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update, NHS
Treasury should look for new ways to …
Treasury should look for new ways to deliver more for less: In the aftermath of Covid, the government must control public spending and draw on private sector investment and innovation …
Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update, Mental Health, NHS, Nursing
How to tackle the nursing crisis
How to tackle the nursing crisis: For many people the social restrictions experienced during lockdowns will have had long-lasting consequences, increasing feelings of loneliness, stress and depression. But throughout the …
Australasia, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Cell fitness can predict COVID outcomes
Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known …
Australasia, Global Reach, Infection/Disease, Innovation
Start-up gets backing for liver disease treatment
A University of Queensland start-up company, developing a potential new treatment for obesity-related liver disease, has secured a seed investment of $1.3 million from IP Group, a UK-based intellectual property …
Australasia, Cancer
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation for …
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients: A physician scientist whose research focuses on an important but overlooked problem in cancer biology has been awarded …