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Nominations open for Victoria's Health Promotion Heroes of 2013 8/19/2013

Victorians are being invited to nominate health promotion champions for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Awards 2013, to be announced at a ceremony in Melbourne in December. ...

Research reveals consumers care about buying local 8/19/2013

New research from Roy Morgan, commissioned by the Australian Made Campaign, has revealed buying Australian-made products has become more important to Australian consumers.

Get your facts straight: ABC website to investigate contentious claims 8/15/2013

Australia is about to get its facts straight – that's the message from the team behind the ABC's newly launched Fact Check website and accompanying platforms including television, ...

iPhone app helps prevent strokes 8/13/2013

A special iPhone case and app can be used to quickly and cheaply detect heart rhythm problems and prevent strokes, according to University of Sydney research presented at the Australia ...

Monitoring patients' health using cloud-based technology 7/24/2013

Research at Charles Sturt University (CSU) aims to make it possible for a doctor to monitor the heart rate or check the blood pressure of a patient hundreds of kilometres away, using ...

Enhancing the white cane for people who are blind 7/19/2013

The most reliable navigation tool for people who are blind, the white cane, is set to be enhanced by a new gadget built by six Curtin University PhD students.

Converting seizures into sound 7/18/2013

A simple method of converting the brain wave signals of people living with epilepsy into sound has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Sydney.

Australia, Italy join forces for knee research 6/27/2013

Engineers and scientists from Flinders University are teaming up with the University of Bologna in Italy to research and design new knee implants.

iPhone improves early skin cancer detection 5/16/2013

Queensland researchers are turning iPhones into personal skin scanners so patients can detect suspicious spots.

Human nerve and tissue printing a step closer 5/16/2013

Australian scientists are at the forefront of a medical revolution using 3D 'printing' to reproduce human body parts.

Overnight lenses restore up-close vision 4/11/2013

Wearing specially designed rigid contact lenses overnight that reshape the eye could remove the need for reading glasses in middle age, a UNSW study shows.

MRI could be effective Alzheimer's detection tool 2/17/2013

Scientists can now detect early features of Alzheimer's disease using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

Researchers perfect nanodiamonds for biomedical applications 2/17/2013

Researchers at Macquarie University have been perfecting a technique that may help see nanodiamonds used in biomedical applications. PhD student Jana Say has been working on processing ...

Bionic muscle regeneration within reach 12/4/2012

Car accident victims and cancer patients are among those who may benefit from a University of Wollongong breakthrough in the use of nanostructured bionic platforms to regenerate ...

New device allows users to reset their body clocks 11/29/2012

Re-Timer, a wearable green light device invented by Flinders University sleep researchers to reset the body’s internal clock, was launched recently.

Shutting down: good night's snooze a web click away 11/12/2012

Do insomniacs dream of electric sleep?

Medical professional drug pilfering is rare but perilous 11/5/2012

Medical professional drug pilfering is rare but perilous

Bionic eye 'visionaries' win top honour 10/23/2012

For their pioneering work on developing a bionic eye, two UNSW engineers have been honoured with a prestigious research achievement award.

The battle diggers face after war 10/12/2012

For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Australian troops, withdrawal from Afghanistan will simply bring a new battle - with mental illness.

Infectious disease risk low priority for Australian travellers 10/10/2012

New research led by the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre reveals many Australians are inadequately protecting against potentially serious infectious diseases ...

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