What was once a childhood disease, DMD is now changing, with a new population of adults emerging as life expectancy increases, and care needs to evolve with it.
The world has talked at great lengths about how climate change is an environmental crisis. But what about the human health effects that come from it?
The field of RNA therapeutics has expanded incredibly in the past 30 years, and mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were just the start.
Fifteen years of patient data has revealed an important link between hospital-acquired infections and seizure and epilepsy onset.
As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely-populated cities.
A new trial is looking for chemical markers in the breath of people with silicosis. A second project will test drugs that may help lung scarring.
The world’s most advanced artificial heart, including a pipeline of transformative, next-generation cardiac technologies, are set to be developed and commercialised by a Monash University-led consortium.
Government reforms are fighting the tactics that have fed a cultural acceptability of vaping, and a mistaken belief it has insignificant health risks.
Hotter, drier conditions associated with El Niño can be detrimental to our health. These tips may help.
Could a combination of phage therapy and antibiotics be the key to unlocking the antimicrobial-resistant superbug crisis?
The pandemic stretched our healthcare system to breaking point, but it also proved how new and positive models of screening and care can quickly be created in adversity.
2022 will be the year we finally have all the means, measures, and tools to control the pandemic to a non-lethal state.
New research shows the ongoing effects from critical illness with COVID-19 can be long and serious.
A lot has changed in COVID treatment since the pandemic began. Here are the treatments you can expect — from being diagnosed, to going to hospital, and for those who need to be cared for in ICU.
A multi-city research collaboration aims to provide cheap oxygen conversion units to save lives in village hospitals.
Using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics, researchers have found a way to revert antibiotic resistance.
They're low-cost medicines that can be easily accessed, and are being used to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
New research aims to reveal the post-ICU effects on the body, and will highlight the vital role of physiotherapists in intensive care.
Most people diagnosed with COVID-19 can manage their illness at home, but some patients deteriorate after about five days. Fortunately, Australian doctors have up-to-the-minute treatment guidelines.
Mechanical ventilation is saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it can also harm the lungs.
... among other things lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis.
Friendships, marriages and business partnerships continue to be forged at Monash.
Some of the claims regarding the blazes need to be put into context. It’s not the number of fires, but rather the cumulative destruction that rightly has the world worried.
A pregnancy hormone may provide the first effective treatment in combating the silicosis epidemic.
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