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Better targeted treatments for 20 per cent of renal failure patients are on the horizon following a key discovery about the role of white blood cells in kidney inflammation.
Results of new research from the University of Adelaide are a promising step forward in helping to improve the quality of life-saving blood transfusions for preterm babies, by reducing ...
As an intensive care physician I’m increasingly confronted with managing patients who are at the end of their life.
A lack of national data on health care complaints is a major obstacle to making improvements to the health care system, a study led by the University of Sydney claims.
Australians are smoking and drinking less but they are still putting on weight, with more than 60 per cent of the population deemed overweight or obese.
In developed countries people over 65 years old are the most likely to die from an influenza outbreak and people in nursing homes, where the virus is difficult to control, are ...
For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Australian troops, withdrawal from Afghanistan will simply bring a new battle - with mental illness.
Depression can be a stubborn problem — at least one in three patients fail to respond to proven therapies — and experts in the field have put their heads together to outline practical ...
Deakin University researchers are investigating the anti-inflammatory properties of virgin olive oil to see if it as the potential to protect against the inflammation involved in ...
New research led by the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre reveals many Australians are inadequately protecting against potentially serious infectious diseases ...
Anti-cancer properties have been found in extracts from Australian-grown faba beans, along with effects that may have implications for treating hypertension and maintaining healthy ...
Experts call for simple measures to stem the tide of antimicrobial resistance.
A Queensland strawberry-breeding program has uncovered what could become the nutritional power-berry of the strawberry industry.
Web-based treatment for people with depression cuts by half the number of people with the illness contemplating suicide, Australian research shows.
Up to two-thirds of people who have a stroke will experience depression and although it is more common in the first year after the stroke - stroke survivors, friends and family need ...
With an estimated 13 million Australians aware of R U OK? Day and 1 in 5 taking part in 2011, this year’s R U OK? Day on September 13 is set to encourage even more Australians health ...
Queenslanders can expect to endure a longer hay fever season than the rest of Australia thanks to flowering subtropical grasses.
In a small laboratory at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga, ground breaking research using mice aims to discover more about brain cell death in people suffering from ...
Food safety standards in retail food and foodservice outlets across NSW have increased significantly in recent years.
With spring approaching, weather conditions set fair and record vegetation growth across the country, the Rural Fire Service is embarking on a major hazard reduction program and ...
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