Medicine and Health Science

World-class cancer research at the University of Melbourne

4 Aug 2010, 10.17 AM

Scientists from the University of Melbourne will investigate new tools that could accurately predict breast cancer risk after receiving more than $100,000 in funding from the Victorian Government’s 2010 Victorian Cancer Agency grants.

Huntington disease discovery provides new hope for treatment

29 Jul 2010, 9.00 AM

Australian scientists have identified the behaviour of the mutant protein ‘huntingtin’ which leads to the fatal Huntington’s disease providing potential targets to treat the disease, a University of Melbourne study reveals.

World-first vaccine candidate for newborns to help combat deadly rotavirus

21 Jul 2010, 9.59 AM

Australian researchers have begun clinical trials of a new vaccine to protect newborn infants  against rotavirus, a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease that kills half a million children worldwide each year.

Aussie school kids happy to grow and cook new foods, study reveals.

21 Jun 2010, 12.33 PM

Primary school children have increased confidence in cooking and gardening and a willingness to try new foods, a new report reveals.

New courses meet future healthcare challenges

4 May 2010, 3.05 PM

The University of Melbourne will offer the country’s first professional entry masters level course in Medicine as part of its newly designed suite of graduate degrees in medicine, dentistry and physiotherapy.

Australian businesses will need to be sustainable to compete, new national study reveals

23 Apr 2010, 9.48 AM

Australian businesses will need to engage in sustainability reporting in the future to remain competitive, according to a new report.

New mums beat the blues and increase wellbeing with physio exercise, study reveals

20 May 2010, 11.11 AM

Exercising in the first three months after giving birth, can reduce the risk of Postnatal Depression (PND) and increase wellbeing, a University of Melbourne study conducted at Angliss Hospital, has revealed.

Bionic Vision Australia puts bionic eye in sight

30 Mar 2010, 1.49 PM

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept – a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia’s first recipient of the technology.

Our eye position betrays the numbers we have in mind, new study

23 Mar 2010, 11.56 AM

It will be harder to lie about your age or your poker hand after new research by the University of Melbourne, has revealed that our eye position betrays the numbers we are thinking about.

Webcam advice could reduce rates of STIs in youth

22 Mar 2010, 3.30 PM

An Australian first study at the University of Melbourne is investigating how webcam technology might be used to reduce rates of sexually transmissible infections in young people.