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....
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...
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,...
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...