NSW Health and Medical Research

Health & Medical Research news

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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14 JAN 2020

The pioneering Australian study that’s changing how we think about ageing

In 2018, for the first time in Australia’s history, the number of Australians aged over 65 outnumbered...

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16 DEC 2019

NSW leads the way in gene and cell therapy

A $25 million NSW Government facility will give patients with genetic diseases, cancers and viral infections...

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20 NOV 2019

The researcher hoping to cure the world’s most common blood disorders

Sci-fi visions of the future often depict the perfect human: disease-free, ageless, and perhaps even...

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13 NOV 2019

How one researcher is changing how we conduct clinical trials

As a young cardiologist, Professor Anthony Keech could hardly keep up with the demand for angiograms....

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