November 10, 2008 – 9:21am
Media Release, Monday 10 November 2008
Ninety years after Australian scientists began their race to stop the spread of Spanish flu in Australia, University of Melbourne researchers are hoping records from the 1918 epidemic may hold the key to preventing future deadly pandemic outbreaks.
This month marks the 90th anniversary of the return of Australian WWI troops [...]
November 10, 2008 – 9:18am
By Janine Sim-Jones
A new community-based research program which aims to help close the gap in child health inequalities in Victoria has been launched jointly by the University of Melbourne and the Jack Brockhoff Foundation.
Under the program a University of Melbourne team will work with community organisations, schools, local councils, hospitals and welfare organisations to implement [...]
October 14, 2008 – 9:26am
Media Release, Tuesday 14 October 2008
Changing the approach to genetic screening for cancers in Australia could effectively halve deaths caused by an inherited form of bowel cancer, says a University of Melbourne expert.
Professor John Hopper – an Australia Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Melbourne School of Population Health –says [...]
Dr Catherine Bennett (Centre for MEGA Epidemiology) wins the prestigious 2008 Australian Award for University Teaching in the category of Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
The Award will be presented at a formal ceremony to be held in Canberra on Tuesday, 25 November this year.
Dr [...]
September 2, 2008 – 10:50am
Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 2 September 2008
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Professor Dallas English, Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health spoke at the Dean’s Lecture Series on Tuesday 2nd September, 2008
Cancer is a major killer in Australia, causing thirty percent [...]
September 1, 2008 – 11:54am
Media Release, Monday 1 September 2008
Australians need to tackle obesity and physical inactivity with the same intensity that they have smoking if they want to prevent cancer, says a University of Melbourne expert.
Professor Dallas English, in a lecture to be delivered at the University of Melbourne tomorrow (2 September), says there has been a major [...]
Media Release, Tuesday 8 July 2008
Women who have risk factors commonly associated with Type 2 diabetes also have much greater odds of being diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer, according to research to be presented today (Tuesday 8 July 2008).
University of Melbourne researcher Dr Anne Cust was a key collaborator on an international study which [...]
Media Release, Monday 7 July 2008
More aggressive treatment of childhood eczema may be an important step in preventing asthma, says a new Australian study.
The study, published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, calls for trials of aggressive therapies against childhood eczema in attempt to reduce the incidence of asthma in later life.
Media Release, Thursday 5 June 2008
Use of mammography and breast ultrasound procedures soared by over 30 per cent among women aged 25-44 in the six months following Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis, says a new study from the University of Melbourne.
There was also a sharp rise in the number of women aged 25-34 years [...]
Media Release, Thursday 22 May 2008
Leading health experts and philanthropists will join forces in Melbourne today to mark the start of their campaign to eradicate a curable eye disease which continues to cause blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities.
The Indigenous Eye Health Program at the University of Melbourne aims to eradicate trachoma – an eye disease [...]