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Medicine and health

Medicine and health

Rethink on aspirin

Low-dose aspirin has no benefit in prolonging a life free of disability, or substantially reducing the risk of having a first heart attack or stroke, study finds.

John McNeil Professor and head of School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Low-dose aspirin has no benefit in prolonging a life free of disability, or substantially reducing the risk of having a first heart attack or stroke, study finds.

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Medicine and health

Medicine and health

A playground for the brain

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Murat Yucel Professor (Research), Psychology

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Business and economy

Business and economy

Trump versus China means picking sides

There can be no middle road in the trade war between China and the United States. Soon we will have to choose one side or the other.

Giovanni Di Lieto Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics

There can be no middle road in the trade war between China and the United States. Soon we will have to choose one side or the other.

Medicine and health

Medicine and health

Are you in, or are you out?

Australians have until November 15 to opt out of the My Health Record database, in what is looming as a fork in the road for our healthcare system.

Chris Bain Professor of Practice in Digital Health

Australians have until November 15 to opt out of the My Health Record database, in what is looming as a fork in the road for our healthcare system.

Politics and society

Politics and society

Holding police to account

An independent police complaints system is long overdue in Victoria but is it enough to make police accountable and to address the fear and cynicism towards the force in some parts of the community?

Leanne Weber Associate Professor of Criminology

An independent police complaints system is long overdue in Victoria but is it enough to make police accountable and to address the fear and cynicism towards the force in some parts of the community?

Global Leaders' Week

Global Leaders' Week

A tale of two cities

Although Melbourne and Singapore are very different cities, they have much in common.

Monash University

Although Melbourne and Singapore are very different cities, they have much in common.

Medicine and health

Medicine and health

Tackling pain head-on

Upcoming trials may offer hope to those who suffer from debilitating cluster headaches and chronic migraines.

Elspeth Hutton Research Fellow, Department of Neuroscience

Upcoming trials may offer hope to those who suffer from debilitating cluster headaches and chronic migraines.

Politics and society

The latest insights, research and commentary on politics and society across the globe by Monash University academics and industry experts.

Politics and society

Politics and society

Falling short on family violence

Despite having a code of practice in place for investigating incidents, police duty failures are all too common.

Jude McCulloch Professor of Criminology

Despite having a code of practice in place for investigating incidents, police duty failures are all too common.

Politics and society

Politics and society

We're not homophobic but ...

There's a yawning disconnect between the positive attitudes about gay people playing rugby and the use of on-field slurs.

Erik Denison Lead researcher, Sport Inclusion Project, Behavioural Science Laboratory

There's a yawning disconnect between the positive attitudes about gay people playing rugby and the use of on-field slurs.

Design and architecture

Design and architecture

The case for the makers

Creative manufacturing is surviving in urban areas, but the redevelopment of inner-city industrial zones threatens its existence.

Carl Grodach Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

Creative manufacturing is surviving in urban areas, but the redevelopment of inner-city industrial zones threatens its existence.

Politics and society

Politics and society

Reaching out to Rohingya girls

Researchers have given voice to the often overlooked adolescents languishing in a vast Bangladesh refugee camp.

Eleanor Gordon Lecturer, politics and international relations, School of Social Sciences

Researchers have given voice to the often overlooked adolescents languishing in a vast Bangladesh refugee camp.

Medicine and health

The latest medicine and health insights, news and commentary from Monash University academics and industry experts.

Medicine and health

Medicine and health

A playground for the brain

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Murat Yucel Professor (Research), Psychology

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

Doctors, we've got a problem 'down there'

It's the most common vaginal infection affecting women of reproductive age, but is often considered a non-serious condition – and that needs to change.

Jade Bilardi Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic

It's the most common vaginal infection affecting women of reproductive age, but is often considered a non-serious condition – and that needs to change.

A self-defeating success story

A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.

Scott O'Neill Professor and Director, World Mosquito Program

A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

Hunting superbugs among the aged

Nursing homes are coming under the spotlight in the ongoing antimicrobial resistance war.

Anton Peleg Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Nursing homes are coming under the spotlight in the ongoing antimicrobial resistance war.

Technology and engineering

The latest global technology and engineering insights, news and commentary from Monash University academics and industry experts.

Technology and engineering

Technology and engineering

Containing the digital tsunami

As high-speed internet spreads throughout the Pacific, steps are being taken to ensure the islands' cybersecurity.

Carsten Rudolph Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, Faculty of Information Technology

As high-speed internet spreads throughout the Pacific, steps are being taken to ensure the islands' cybersecurity.

Technology and engineering

Technology and engineering

Revived? Tullamarine airport and Monash rail links

The long-touted links to Tullamarine and Monash have again been revived, but questions remain over the plans.

Graham Currie Director of Monash Infrastructure, Chair of Public Transport, Professor in Transport Engineering

The long-touted links to Tullamarine and Monash have again been revived, but questions remain over the plans.

Technology and engineering

Technology and engineering

A mission to make plastic fantastic

A Dutch design student's idea to repurpose plastics on a small scale has become an initiative that's spawned a growing global community.

Scott Wordley Director of Learning and Teaching, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

A Dutch design student's idea to repurpose plastics on a small scale has become an initiative that's spawned a growing global community.

Technology and engineering

Technology and engineering

Turning plastic into fuel

With China no longer accepting Australian waste, an innovative home-grown solution is planned to turn plastic and used tyres into fuel.

Sankar Bhattacharya Professor, Chemical Engineering

With China no longer accepting Australian waste, an innovative home-grown solution is planned to turn plastic and used tyres into fuel.

Medicine and health

Medicine and health

A playground for the brain

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Murat Yucel Professor (Research), Psychology

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Reducing the road toll on country roads

Flexible road barriers are being rolled out on high-risk Victorian roads after research showed they eliminated up to 90 per cent of fatal and serious crashes.

David Logan Senior Research Fellow at Monash University Accident Research Centre

Flexible road barriers are being rolled out on high-risk Victorian roads after research showed they eliminated up to 90 per cent of fatal and serious crashes.

As one door closes ...

The curtain has come down on the Victorian auto industry, but former workers are finding opportunities in the booming pharmaceuticals and medical technology sector.

Michelle McIntosh Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

The curtain has come down on the Victorian auto industry, but former workers are finding opportunities in the booming pharmaceuticals and medical technology sector.

Waste not, want not

We love our food, but waste an extraordinary amount of it. Now, research is looking at how repurposing what we throw out can be turned into profit.

Tony Patti Professor, School of Chemistry

We love our food, but waste an extraordinary amount of it. Now, research is looking at how repurposing what we throw out can be turned into profit.

Business and economy

The latest business and economy views, commentary and research told by Monash academics and thought-leaders.

Business and economy

Business and economy

Trump versus China means picking sides

There can be no middle road in the trade war between China and the United States. Soon we will have to choose one side or the other.

Giovanni Di Lieto Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics

There can be no middle road in the trade war between China and the United States. Soon we will have to choose one side or the other.

A Different Lens

A Different Lens

A Different Lens

A Different Lens

Episode 9: The death of corporate greed

Are making money and acting ethically mutually exclusive? Find out why business success is now so dependent on ethical behaviour, in this episode of A Different Lens.

Michelle Welsh Professor & Head, Department Business Law and Taxation

Are making money and acting ethically mutually exclusive? Find out why business success is now so dependent on ethical behaviour, in this episode of A Different Lens.

Business and economy

Business And Economy

Business And Economy

Business and economy

Back from the brink

A sudden funding change plunged a youth service into an existential crisis. To survive required a radical shift in how it operated.

Paul Thambar Lecturer, Department of Accounting

A sudden funding change plunged a youth service into an existential crisis. To survive required a radical shift in how it operated.

Business and economy

Business and economy

Twice around the block

Life has come full circle for Malaysian professor and nation-building advocate Mahendhiran Nair.

Mahendhiran Nair Professor of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash Malaysia

Life has come full circle for Malaysian professor and nation-building advocate Mahendhiran Nair.

Expert commentary and insights from Monash University academics and researchers on the latest science research and discoveries.

Big bang far from certain on Lombok

While alarming, the recent sequence of earthquakes in Indonesia isn't necessarily leading to a large-scale eruption.

Steven Micklethwaite Associate Professor of Geology

While alarming, the recent sequence of earthquakes in Indonesia isn't necessarily leading to a large-scale eruption.

A self-defeating success story

A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.

Scott O'Neill Professor and Director, World Mosquito Program

A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.

From a leaky boat to the RAFT

San Thang fled Vietnam in 1979, encountering pirates on the way to Australia. Now, the chemistry innovator and his colleagues are being touted to win the Nobel Prize.

San Thang AC Professor, School of Chemistry

San Thang fled Vietnam in 1979, encountering pirates on the way to Australia. Now, the chemistry innovator and his colleagues are being touted to win the Nobel Prize.

What will Antarctica look like in 2070?

Will the icy wilderness we know today survive, or will it succumb to climate change and human pressure? Our choices over the coming decade will seal its fate.

Steven Chown Professor, School of Biological Sciences

Will the icy wilderness we know today survive, or will it succumb to climate change and human pressure? Our choices over the coming decade will seal its fate.

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