NSW Health and Medical Research

Health & Medical Research news

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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07 NOV 2019

The device that enables HIV self-testing in places that need it most

Medical device experts in Australia have created an affordable, all-in-one HIV self-test, and they’re...

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23 OCT 2019

Five ways health research translates into real-life solutions

The Translational Research Grants Scheme aims to incentivise research that is a priority for the State,...

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14 OCT 2019

Why curing rare diseases benefits us all

In the mid-1980s, a young boy attended the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney with a rare cancer...

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