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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....