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29 JAN 2020

Rebuilding a better functioning heart after heart attack

Every year, heart attacks send around 57,000 Australians to hospital and, in 2018 alone, they took more...

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20 JAN 2020

The Sydney entrepreneur improving outcomes for knee replacement patients

Surgeons perform 60,000-odd knee replacements in Australia per year, with each costing around $30,000....

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14 JAN 2020

The pioneering Australian study that’s changing how we think about ageing

In 2018, for the first time in Australia’s history, the number of Australians aged over 65 outnumbered...

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16 DEC 2019

NSW leads the way in gene and cell therapy

A $25 million NSW Government facility will give patients with genetic diseases, cancers and viral infections...

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20 NOV 2019

The researcher hoping to cure the world’s most common blood disorders

Sci-fi visions of the future often depict the perfect human: disease-free, ageless, and perhaps even...

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13 NOV 2019

How one researcher is changing how we conduct clinical trials

As a young cardiologist, Professor Anthony Keech could hardly keep up with the demand for angiograms....

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07 NOV 2019

The device that enables HIV self-testing in places that need it most

Medical device experts in Australia have created an affordable, all-in-one HIV self-test, and they’re...

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23 OCT 2019

Five ways health research translates into real-life solutions

The Translational Research Grants Scheme aims to incentivise research that is a priority for the State,...

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14 OCT 2019

Why curing rare diseases benefits us all

In the mid-1980s, a young boy attended the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney with a rare cancer...

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09 OCT 2019

Aboriginal healthy hearts

Aboriginal Australians are twice as likely to have a heart attack as other Australians and more than...

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