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13 Feb 2017
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?
9 Feb 2017
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.
8 Feb 2017
A smartphone app will target taxi drivers’ ‘downtime’ waiting for their next passenger, to support them with tools and messages to improve their health.
6 Feb 2017
A simple bedside test for pregnant women to accurately predict early labour is under development at the University of Melbourne.
3 Feb 2017
An Australian-first research program will help improve treatment for up to one million Australians with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
2 Feb 2017
New research has shown how normally helpful brain cells can turn rogue and kill off other brain cells following injury or disease.
31 Jan 2017
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.
30 Jan 2017
Professor Melissa Little has been named the new head of the Stem Cells Australia initiative by the University of Melbourne.
25 Jan 2017
Following an international search, eminent Australian clinician scientist Professor Grant McArthur has been appointed to lead the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre as Executive Director.
24 Jan 2017
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.
17 Jan 2017
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.
13 Jan 2017
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.
13 Jan 2017
Following an international search, local expert Professor Jennifer Philip has been appointed to the prestigious position of Chair of Palliative Medicine.
23 Dec 2016
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.
13 Dec 2016
Researchers investigating influenza, multiple sclerosis and Indigenous health will share in $60 million funding from the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council grants.
12 Dec 2016
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.
7 Dec 2016
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.
7 Dec 2016
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.
4 Dec 2016
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.
30 Nov 2016
Two of Victoria’s leading research minds have received the state’s highest scientific honour for research into how the immune system identifies and fights disease, a high-water mark for careers that have worked in sync over 15 years of technical innovation.