On this page: Saving lives after stroke with a small aircraft or ambulance-mounted CT brain scanner Adelaide company Micro-X (MX1) has started developing a small CT brain scanner that can be fitted in ambulances and emergency aircraft. If successful, the device will allow paramedics and retrieval teams to diagnose and then start treating stroke patients…
Using a face mask, Adelaide researchers have a new way to detect a major hidden equine health issue. Up to 80 percent of horses – including racehorses and showjumpers – suffer from a form of asthma that affects their performance and wellbeing. Researchers led by veterinarian Surita Du Preez from the University of Adelaide are…
Images, video overlay, two case studies (rotavirus vaccine and TB in adolescents) and backgrounder available. Melbourne Children’s Global Health initiative to take action for the: Two million children dying annually from pneumonia and diarrhoea 8 million new child and youth cases of TB each year Mental health and wellbeing of youth caught up in global unemployment, civic unrest,…
Melbourne Children’s Global Health is an initiative to improve the health of children and adolescents in disadvantaged populations globally through partnerships in research, public health, education and advocacy. The initiative has been created by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and the Royal Children’s Hospital under the auspices of the…
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Bio Farma, Indonesia’s national vaccine company, is completing a phase 1 trial of a new rotavirus vaccine invented in Melbourne and has started pilot manufacture of the vaccine. Licencing trials are next, followed hopefully by release of the new vaccine in 2021. The project is the culmination of a 42-year partnership between Melbourne and Gadjah…
In 2017, almost one million children fell ill and over 200,000 children under 15 died of tuberculosis, according to the latest WHO Roadmap. The report also identifies a previously underreported challenge, TB in adolescents. University of Melbourne researcher Ms Kathryn Snow has estimated that about 1.8 million young people develop TB every year comprising
Scientists use computer simulations of joint and muscle movements to teach us to exercise smarter Researchers have developed computer simulations of joint and muscle movements that can teach us how to exercise smarter and prevent knee pain and further damage. One in five Australians over the age of 45 suffer from painful and debilitating osteoarthritis,…
The holy grail of healthy old age may lie in the riddle of cells that stop cancer and hasten age at the same time. Professor Judith Campisi, the head of research labs at San Francisco’s Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will present this research at the Inflammation in…