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 [...]
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
Click here to listen to the audio from this event
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, Tuesday 22 April 2008
Professor Julian Peto, Head, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology and Genetics Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Melbourne’s Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow – 2008 will present the Miegunyah Public Lecture at the Sunderland Theatre 6pm tonight.
Professor Peto will present results of a UK study [...]
Media Release, Monday 10 March 2008
Toddlers with eczema who have a positive skin prick test for allergy have almost triple the risk of developing asthma than those with a negative test, says an Australian study.
The study, led by the University of Melbourne, is the first to clearly demonstrate that skin prick tests can be used [...]
February 11, 2008 – 10:46am
Media Release, Monday 11 February 2008
Australian researchers have contributed to an international study led by UK scientists that has found and confirmed seven new sites in the human genome that are linked to men’s risk of developing prostate cancer. Their findings are published in Nature Genetics* today.
The scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research and [...]