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Around the Precinct – 22 October 2020

Important presentations coming up; COVID research continues across fields rom diabetes and allergy, to mental health and community transmission; advances in the management of epilepsy, inflammatory conditions and upper gastrointestinal cancer; discussions continue into fixing aged care and how locations impacts your chance of getting the latest treatments; while further afield, our researchers boost COVID… Read More

Around the Precinct – 15 October 2020

This week at the Alfred Research Alliance, our researchers continue to track the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on everything from mental health to appetite; we look at the impact of coronary heart disease on work productivity; and see how awareness makes all the difference to thrombosis outcomes; ALFRED HEALTH Looking at the impact of lockdown… Read More

Around the Precinct – 8 October 2020

A prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award; new funding for important projects tackling superbugs, heart failure and hepatitis C; a two-minute video that could help overcome poor genital self-image in teens; why vaccine refusers consider themselves science advocates; and continuing work on COVID-19, with our researchers looking into outcomes of patients admitted to ICU, the importance… Read More

Around the Precinct – 1 October 2020

The COVID-19 response continues based on sound modelling and important clinical trials; WHO endorses a rapid, point-of-care diagnostic for HIV; world-first cancer trials commence; machine learning is harnessed to fast-track early diagnosis of epilepsy; we learn more about why repeated head hits are bad news; and Alliance leaders are recognised as finalists in the prestigious… Read More