WHO: Barriers to insulin 100 years on
New WHO report maps barriers to insulin availability and suggests actions to promote universal access: 100 years after its discovery, insulin still out of reach for...
Insulin 100
Insulin at 100: a life-saving discovery but more remains to be done. 2021 marks the centenary of the discovery of insulin. It is important to...
Male biased referrals in surgery
Biased referral patterns show male physicians refer more patients to male surgeons than female surgeons: Australian and Canadian researchers have shown that male physicians disproportionately refer...
New tech wound healing
Safe and effective - wound healing preparation reaches clinical phase II: APO-2 (Aposec) is a secretome-based trial preparation derived from stressed peripheral blood mononuclear cells....
Magic bullet treatment targets leukaemia
Magic bullet treatment targets leukaemia: Researchers have made a huge leap forward in finding a targeted therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia. The innovative 'magic bullet' technique uses specific antibody-targeting...
Most children with cancer have mild COVID-19
Most children and adolescents with cancer have mild COVID-19 disease and make a full recovery, a new study has found. But paediatric cancer patients with...
Reducing stillbirth among Aboriginal families
New Curtin-led research aims to reduce stillbirth among Aboriginal families: Researchers will carry out the first large-scale examination of stillbirths among Aboriginal families as part...
The Bionics Institute brings new hope for arthritis
The Bionics Institute is bringing hope to people with rheumatoid arthritis: The tiny piece of ground-breaking technology – the size of a thumbnail - could...
Reducing lymphatic spread of cancer
Reducing lymphatic spread of cancer: Professor Ben Hogan’s findings, published in Nature Cell Biology today, shows a novel molecular mechanism that controls the formation of...
Microbiome discovery could help save kids’ hearing
Microbiome discovery could help save kids' hearing: Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of...
