Tag: NSW

Don’t send your recycled glasses to developing countries, it costs twice as much as giving them ready-made glasses

Science in Public on 4 April, 2012

You might feel good sending your old reading glasses to a developing country. But a recent international study, led by the International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE), a collaborating partner in the Vision CRC, in Sydney, suggests it is far better to give $10 for an eye examination and a new pair of glasses if you want to help someone in desperate need, and it is far better for building capacity in these communities.

Sydney doctor inaugurates $4-million Chair to explore a hidden organ

Science in Public on 25 March, 2012

Revealing the cells that make and police our 80,000 km internal transport network.

Sydney doctor and philanthropist Tom Wenkart will donate $4 million on Monday 26 March, in the presence of the NSW Governor Dr Marie Bashir, to endow the University of Sydney Wenkart Chair in Endothelium Medicine at the Centenary Institute.

Young researcher taking fight against global killer to the next level in Vietnam

Science in Public on 21 March, 2012

An Australian scientist will bring effective screening for tuberculosis (TB) a step closer with his latest study in Vietnam- where he now lives and works.

Million dollar lab will fast track new weapons in the war on TB

Science in Public on 20 March, 2012

A $1.2 million high-containment laboratory opening today in Sydney will allow researchers to double their efforts to understand and fight back against TB, a bacterium that lives inside two billion people worldwide and kills three people every minute.

Images available here of the high-biosecurity lab before we lock up and start work with TB.

Searching rural China for clues to stop an ancient and still deadly disease

Science in Public on 15 March, 2012

A Sydney researcher is seeking to improve treatment of TB by tracking resistance to it among thousands of rural Chinese people with the help of a $750,000 NHMRC grant

Why do some heavy drinkers get liver cirrhosis and some don’t?

Science in Public on 12 March, 2012

The US government is investing $2.5 million in a Sydney-based study to determine the role of genetics in alcoholic liver disease.

The study, announced today, should lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the condition – a silent epidemic that costs $3.8 billion a year in Australia alone.

Science in Charlie Teo's Australia Day address

Operations on 24 January, 2012

In his Australia Day address, noted brain surgeon Charlie Teo said he was ashamed to admit to an American friend, who had received a US$50 million grant in the US to study brain cancer, that he works with just AU$150,000 over three years from the Australian government.

Teo says we need another AIS – one for sport, one for science.

Science in Charlie Teo’s Australia Day address

Science in Public on 24 January, 2012

Teo says we need another AIS – one for sport, one for science.

Mini-strokes provide health warning

Tamzin on 20 November, 2011

Patients who suffer stroke-like attacks can have mortality rates 20 per cent higher than the general population, new research finds, leading to calls for better stroke prevention strategies for those who experience a transient ischemic attack (TIA). In one of the largest studies of its kind ever conducted, more than 20,000 adults hospitalised in New South Wales between 2000-2007 with a TIA were compared against the general population for mortality rates.

Dr Melina Gattellari, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW

Stroke

http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2011/nov/mini_strokes.html

2010 fellow wins Inaugural Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize

Operations on 26 October, 2011

The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize, for her lung cancer research, is Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). Having unravelled key information on how and why breast stem cells co…