Medicine
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760Scholarship to keep local doctors in the region
The University of Queensland has announced a new scholarship intended to train and keep future doctors in Bundaberg.
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542Plan for healthy ageing in the Torres Strait
James Cook University researchers will investigate how elderly Torres Strait Islanders can be helped to stay in their own homes and on...
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2.0KGut health key to effective biomedical research
JCU scientists say biomedical researchers should reconsider their research models to improve the translation of new drugs into humans.
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763Dementia a numbers game
Crunching the real numbers behind the ageing disease of dementia will lay the foundation for Australia’s future treatment approaches.
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1.1KShot of love hormone oxytocin a game changer for BDD patients
Oxytocin, known as the love hormone, could play a key role in treating the debilitating psychiatric illness body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) when...
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678Body and mind need care in mental illness
The 18-year life expectancy gap between people with mental illness and the general population can only be bridged by protecting patients’ physical...
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419Cannabis treatment counters addiction: first study of its kind
A Sydney-led study published in a JAMA journal provides the first strong evidence that medicinal cannabis could reduce the rate of relapse...
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598Healthy lifestyle may counteract genetic risk of dementia
Living a healthy lifestyle may help counteract a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to new international research.
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617Lipid bodies help antibiotics to kill TB infections
Researchers are a step closer to better understanding how to treat one of the world’s deadliest diseases tuberculosis (TB), according to a...
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631New brain injury centre for the South
A new service for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) will ensure more people in the southern suburbs and Fleurieu can embrace...
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Junk food linked to sleep problems in teens - Get Education
Eating too much junk food has been linked with poor sleep quality in teens, a University of Queensland-led study has found. UQ School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences researcher Associate Professor Asad Khan said frequent consumption of soft drinks and fast food was strongly associated with sle...
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New defence against dengue and emerging mosquito-borne viruses - GetSTEM
New treatments to cut the global death rate from dengue, Zika and West Nile viruses could result from research led by The University of Queensland. Associate Professor Daniel Watterson from UQ’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said the team identified an antibody that improved surviv...
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Study estimates 200-plus white sharks breed each year - GetSTEM
A study on the vulnerable white shark has shown that approximately 206 to 252 sharks breed on Australia’s east coast each year. The joint study involving The University of Queensland, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Stellenbosch University in South Africa has used genomics to estimate the...
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Australia’s Public Transport Disability Standards and CAVs http://getindustry.com.au/2020/12/14/australias-public-transport-disability-standards-and-cavs/
CSIRO Data61 wins iMOVE award - GetSTEM
Congratulations to CSIRO’s Data61 group, winner of the iMOVE-sponsored Excellence in Research & Development Award at the recent ITS Australia National Awards 2020. Data61 won for its work with Transport for NSW on its Transit Assignment Engine: The Agent-based Simulation Engine Enriched with Disea...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2021 at 2:16am
Supporting research endeavours to commence in 2021 https://t.co/oqY3rJ3xDg
Supporting research endeavours to commence in 2021 https://t.co/oqY3rJ3xDg
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 at 7:33pm
New defence against dengue and emerging mosquito-borne viruses https://t.co/AuuzRo6oF4
New defence against dengue and emerging mosquito-borne viruses https://t.co/AuuzRo6oF4
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 at 2:39am
Study estimates 200-plus white sharks breed each year https://t.co/okMUMVKw2j
Study estimates 200-plus white sharks breed each year https://t.co/okMUMVKw2j