532 results found
Page 24 of 27
29 Nov 2016
Connections to other people are at the heart of the resilience and recovery of survivors of Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires — but a landmark study warns it can take five years or longer for the trauma to become manageable for many of those involved.
24 Nov 2016
Young people who had sexually abused other children said that helping them to manage pornography and improving their sexuality education could have helped prevent their abusive behaviour.
24 Nov 2016
A new program offering free eye tests and glasses at Victorian schools is set to transform the learning environment of children in prep to year three — up to a third of whom may have unidentified vision problems.
22 Nov 2016
A University of Melbourne researcher has been recognised for her work on drug-resistant strains of typhoid and dysentery, which are spreading through developing countries and making a comeback in developed countries via international travellers.
21 Nov 2016
The gap in blindness in Indigenous communities has been halved since 2008 through collective implementation of the sector-supported Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision, according to a report launched today.
21 Nov 2016
An oral health program for schoolchildren in Timor L’Este — where an estimated one in seven rural children has painful infections, broken teeth and abscesses — will receive a boost from a new University of Melbourne scholarship.
17 Nov 2016
A bid to improve near-zero survival rates for pancreatic cancer will receive a boost with the creation of Australia’s first pancreatic cancer ‘organoids bank’, enabling researchers to bring down the time it takes to find individualised chemotherapy treatment to weeks rather than months.
16 Nov 2016
University of Melbourne researchers are pushing for recognition of young ‘kinship carers’ — a hidden group of people aged 30 and under caring for family members or friends aged under 18, sacrificing their own careers, education and wellbeing.
10 Nov 2016
The University of Melbourne is leading a push for Australia to recognise Sarcopenia, a muscle-wasting disease that affects one in three people globally over the age of 60.
3 Nov 2016
Laws that are meant to protect people with disabilities in the criminal justice system can lead to detention without an end date.
10 Oct 2016
Melbourne researchers have discovered a new way to interpret mammograms that could transform routine breast screening and save lives.
8 Oct 2016
With official figures showing suicides in Australia hit a record high last year, a world-first research partnership has found that TV can be a force for good for men’s mental health.
6 Oct 2016
The authors of a world first study of GPs have found that girls as young as 15 are undergoing labiaplasties and other procedures, even though the medical consensus is that female genitalia do not reach maturity until around the age of 18.
5 Oct 2016
General practitioners are referring children more frequently to paediatricians, leading to blowouts in wait times and concerns that GPs are less confident in treating children with complex or chronic conditions.
28 Sep 2016
A new series published in The Lancet, led by the University of Melbourne and featuring authors from leading global academic institutions, quantifies for the first time the health outcomes that could be gained through changes to urban design and the transport system
27 Sep 2016
The health of thousands of past and present coal mine workers is potentially at risk, in the wake of revelations that black lung disease is making a comeback.
27 Sep 2016
Living on a farm in early childhood is linked to a lower risk of allergies in adulthood and stronger lung function in women, according to researchers at the University of Melbourne.
27 Sep 2016
Around 2700 Victorian children aged 0-6 years are hospitalised each year for preventable dental conditions — most of them requiring treatment of dental decay under general anaesthetic.
23 Sep 2016
Scientists are getting closer to being able to predict an individual’s genetic risk of heart disease, paving the way for earlier intervention and lifestyle changes.
22 Sep 2016
Australia has come in at number 10 in a global study tracking progress on health, but faces challenges around suicide, alcohol consumption and overweight children.