NSW Health and Medical Research

Health & Medical Research news

19 APR 2020

The quest to find common causes of autoimmune disease

At first glance, Type I diabetes, Sjögren’s syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis don’t appear to have...

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07 APR 2020

$100M support for health workers to fight COVID-19

NSW frontline healthcare workers will be provided with free accommodation to protect their loved ones...

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29 MAR 2020

New app takes a surprising approach to keeping patients on track

If you’ve ever stopped taking medication or failed to keep up with home rehab exercises, you’re not alone....

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23 MAR 2020

Internationally renowned cardio researchers lured to NSW

Cardiovascular research is at the heart of the NSW Government’s $150 million investment over 10 years...

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16 MAR 2020

A virtual pharmacy trial to reduce real-world medication errors in rural and remote areas

Hospital patients needing life-saving treatment can end up hospitalised for longer – or worse – because...

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27 FEB 2020

A more comfortable user-friendly device to monitor labour and avoid complications

Being in a hospital about to give birth is uncomfortable enough. So why is a medical instrument meant...

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18 FEB 2020

How rare disease discovery could help all of us

All parents think their kids are special, but those born with a rare genetic disease genuinely are one in a million....

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14 FEB 2020

Discovery of immune cells in the brain creates new possibilities for schizophrenia treatment

In Australia, schizophrenia affects around 2.4 per 1,000 people, and despite decades of research, there...

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29 JAN 2020

Rebuilding a better functioning heart after heart attack

Every year, heart attacks send around 57,000 Australians to hospital and, in 2018 alone, they took more...

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20 JAN 2020

The Sydney entrepreneur improving outcomes for knee replacement patients

Surgeons perform 60,000-odd knee replacements in Australia per year, with each costing around $30,000....

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