A new five-year study aims to build a broad picture of illicit drug use in regional Victoria, to better-understand the gaps in local health service planning.
Life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to decline coverage or increase premiums. MPs have called for legislation that bans this practice.
Can genetically-modified cell therapies correct the immune system’s mistaken attack of healthy cells and tissues?
Missing in the discussion about low writing achievement among students is the impact of writing disabilities such as dysgraphia.
Population genetic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia in Australia could be cost-effective for the healthcare system.
At this stage it’s hard to know for sure why Melbourne’s COVID numbers are higher, but it’s likely that climate plays a role.
We have the means, but how do you convince people to follow public health advice such as lockdowns?
The lack of investment in the development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices in Australia, most importantly a COVID-19 nucleic acid test, is a public policy failure.
The rapidly-mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus is testing the resilience of the world’s responses, with some variants evolving to become more infectious, and threatening a third wave.
Community pharmacies and pharmacists are important resources in Australia’s vaccine rollout, and right now they’re being under-utilised.
The decision to enact a lockdown is understandable, if disappointing, to Victorians, given the increasing COVID cases, contacts, and the virus’ “variant of concern”.
You can have this STI without knowing it, or have symptoms. It can affect men and women, and it can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it may cause complications.
Researchers are delving into a protein with the potential to stop habitual drinking.
To what extent is "welfare chauvinism" apparent in One Nation’s views of social welfare policies in relation to Indigenous Australians, refugees and asylum seekers?
The delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine still needs to overcome some ethical hurdles.
Researchers are using the environmental DNA sampling method to effectively assess animal populations in bushfire-affected areas.
Satellites used to understand hurricane and cyclone behaviour could hold the key to predicting, and preparing, regions at risk of major flooding events.
COVID-19 raises new challenges for remote mining communities already compromised by fly-in-fly-out workers.
Should the word apply to an application that’s difficult to use and doesn’t take human needs into account?
How likely is it that we'll have a relatively quick fix for COVID-19, and what are the hurdles?
Finding a way out of the COVID-19 crisis will firstly require more urgent and coordinated investment in medical innovation.
It's time to recognise linguistic and cultural diversity as a creative engine of social participation and wellbeing.
New research shows that medicines have found their way into Melbourne streams – and the creatures that live in them.
It took a coordinated effort to reduce Victoria's road toll from a peak of 1034 in 1969, but there's plenty of work still to do.
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