Can Medicare sustain the health of our ageing population?

Helena Britt, University of Sydney; Allan John Pollack, University of Sydney; Carmen Wong, University of Sydney; Christopher Harrison, University of Sydney; Clare Bayram, University of Sydney; Graeme Miller, University of Sydney; Janice Charles, University of Sydney; Joan Henderson, University of Sydney; Julie Gordon, University of Sydney, and Lisa Valenti, University of Sydney

Ignoring the evidence

Science fatigue keeps us clinging to bad health habits

Australia unprepared for bioterrorism attack

Australia’s first university-based bioterrorism course will launch this month, tapping into expertise from UNSW, the Australian Army, NSW Police and international bioterrorism and disaster authorities.

$43 million boost to tackle dementia

Seventy-six researchers will share in $43 million to support bold and innovative new ideas to not only tackle the impacts of dementia but to find ways of preventing and curing the debilitating disease.

Nanocapsules hijack then self-destruct

Australian researchers funded by the National Heart Foundation are a step closer to a safer and more effective way to treat heart attack and stroke via nanotechnology.

Immunotherapy - QIMR Berghofer’s T-cell therapies in clinical trials

Rewriting workplace diversity

Gender diversity might be a hot topic for HR executives, but the concern is not filtering through the organisation, new research from the Hay Group has found.

Regulating medicinal cannabis in Australia

From farm to pharmacy Nola Ries, University of Newcastle

New clinical care standard for acute stroke

Faecal transplants for healthy guts

Why poo transplants are nothing to be sniffed at Tim Spector, King's College London

Toolkit to support patients with breast cancer and palliative needs

Women with a life limiting breast cancer diagnosis will have access to a toolkit to help them understand and access palliative care thanks to an international grant awarded to Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) earlier this month.

How to identify someone with a rare disease

Charles van Heyningen, Royal College of Pathologists

Probiotics for mental health

A group of men who took probiotic capsules daily for a month felt less stressed and performed better on memory tests, according to a study presented to the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago over the weekend.

Liquid marbles allow for spinal cord regeneration

More than 12,000 Australians live with spinal cord paralysis and there is at least one new occurrence every day. But a development in spinal cell transplantation repair has been discovered through the merging of neurobiology and microfluidic engineering - using floating 3D marbles, cells cultured directly on the injury site.

The ethics of whistleblowing

Two Australian doctors have taken to the pages of the prestigious journal, the BMJ to make their international colleagues aware of the extraordinary assault on medical ethics contained in the recently enacted Border Force Act 2015. I have also received an email on behalf on the President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Laureate Professor Nick Talley to all members of the College and its Chapters and Faculties calling the Act “unacceptable to physicians”. They join the AMA and other peak health organisations in publicly warning the Government about trying to prevent doctors advocating for vulnerable patients.