New coating for implants, medical devices cuts infection risk
29 April, 2022Infections after hip replacements and from orthopaedic device procedures can be complicated and lead to painful and repeat surgeries.
New opioids standard encourages alternatives, cessation plans
28 April, 2022The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has launched a new national standard for opioid analgesics to help prevent long-term harm.
Drug-resistant environmental mould causes lung infections
27 April, 2022Drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people's lungs, reveals a new study led by Imperial College London.
Proposal for assessing long COVID patients
26 April, 2022A new assessment proposal aimed at clinicians and researchers hopes to help to establish an individualised treatment protocol for long COVID patients.
Delta variant's invasion trick to evade immune response
21 April, 2022COVID-19's Delta variant may use a novel invasion method to evade the body's immune response, causing damage to the brain, intestine and kidneys, a Griffith University study has found.
TROG President receives inaugural NHMRC clinical trials award
19 April, 2022Professor Trevor Leong, President, TROG Cancer Research, has been awarded the inaugural NHMRC David Cooper Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Award.
One of the unsung heroes
19 April, 2022When 10-year-old Taylor walked into the Queensland Children's Hospital with a broken thumb he was full of apprehension.
New neurodevelopmental disorder discovered
19 April, 2022An Australian-led international research collaboration has discovered a new neurodevelopmental disorder.
Meningitis vaccines could help tackle untreatable gonorrhoea
13 April, 2022Latest studies from South Australia and the US have indicated that meningitis vaccines could help improve protection against gonorrhoea.
Five childhood risk predictors for heart attacks and strokes in adulthood
08 April, 2022Five childhood risk factors that predict stroke and heart attacks in adulthood have been identified after being tracked for up to half a century in the world's largest international prospective cardiovascular disease study.
Research program to collect real-time PROMs to improve cancer care
08 April, 2022Monash University's registry-based clinical trial, PROpatient, aims to determine if symptom monitoring and care coordination, using digital patient pathways, improve quality of life for cancer patients.
How this hospital halved its code blacks
06 April, 2022 by Amy SarcevicIt used to be a familiar scene for Emergency Department Director Prof. Paul Preisz. A psychiatric or drug-affected patient being ferried to and from departments.
Emergency caesarean linked to increased inflammatory response
06 April, 2022Labour and natural childbirth cause stress on a mother's body but an emergency caesarean is associated with even more inflammatory gene expression in the placenta, according to a new study.
UTIs are becoming more deadly, thanks to AMR — CSIRO
06 April, 2022The spread of drug-resistant bacteria in the community is increasing the risk of death for common infections such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) — which affect around one in two women and one in 20 men in their lifetime.
Pre-surgery support could help patients quit smoking
04 April, 2022Offering mailed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and Quitline support to patients encouraged almost one-third of smokers to quit before their elective surgery.
