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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.
13 Sep 2016
Tiny, star-shaped molecules are effective at killing bacteria that can no longer be killed by current antibiotics, new research shows.
9 Sep 2016
A University of Melbourne ethicist is encouraging doctors to recognise the autonomy of parents, even if this could mean “less than optimal” treatment decisions for their children.
5 Sep 2016
An online contest in association with online platform Kaggle, the Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania will let the globe’s keenest data scientists loose on the holy grail of epilepsy research — an algorithm that can predict seizures — using data from patients that has never before been available to researchers.
5 Sep 2016
A massive global study led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and Cancer Council Victoria has confirmed that the risk of developing breast cancer from some relatively rare genetic changes is similar to that from the more common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
5 Sep 2016
State governments need to work much harder to attract specialists into public hospitals and clinics, to tackle growing waiting lists to see a specialist, according to a University of Melbourne researcher.