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Smartphones as Mini Medical Labs Is A Smart Idea
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 2:48 pm | University of Sydney
Smartphones as Mini Medical Labs Is A Smart Idea Imagine your smartphone becoming a mobile medical laboratory that records and sends data for a range of research. That will soon be a reality thanks to the expertise and impatience of a University ... More >>
GPs Squeezing More Into Fifteen Minute Appointment
Friday, 30 November 2012, 2:17 pm | University of Sydney
GPs are fitting much more into patient consultations than they were a decade ago but the average length of the consultation has stayed the same, research led by the University of Sydney shows. More >>
Shortage of National Health Data A Problem For Health System
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 2:42 pm | University of Sydney
12 November 2012 Shortage of National Health Data A Problem For Health System A lack of national data on health care complaints is a major obstacle to making improvements to the health care system, a study led by the University of Sydney claims. “It ... More >>
Hard labour under investigation
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 1:14 pm | University of Sydney
Hard labour under investigation 13 November 2012 With as many as a 30 percent of pregnant women in Australia experiencing a caesarean birth, a study led by researchers from the University of Sydney aims to determine if there is a link between high levels ... More >>
Aspirin a viable treatment for serious blood clots
Monday, 5 November 2012, 12:56 pm | University of Sydney
Low-dose aspirin is a cheap and effective way to prevent potentially deadly blood clots in the leg or the lungs in patients who have had a previous blood clot a new study shows. The study, conducted by the National Health and Medical Research Council’s ... More >>
A coal economy has multiple health and social risks
Monday, 29 October 2012, 12:43 pm | University of Sydney
29 October, 2012 A coal economy has multiple health and social risks, says major review A major review of evidence on the impact of coal mining has highlighted serious, ongoing health and social problems and an urgent need for improvements in government ... More >>
Not All Fat Created Equal For Pregnant Mothers
Friday, 12 October 2012, 9:02 am | University of Sydney
11 October, 2012 Not All Fat Created Equal For Pregnant Mothers Carrying too much weight during pregnancy can place both mother and child at risk but new research from the University of Sydney has discovered that one type of fat is riskier than ... More >>
Rabies Within Reach Of Australia
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 2:23 pm | University of Sydney
Rabies is now present only 350 kilometres from northern Australia, closer than the distance from Sydney to Dubbo. If it reached our shores it would have serious ecological, public health, economic and social impacts according to Professor Michael Ward, from ... More >>
Australia Risks Developing Subclass Of Working Poor
Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 2:07 pm | University of Sydney
As Australia’s manufacturing sector contracts, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the working poor with jobs that are low paid, unskilled, insecure and offer few career prospects, according to researchers at the University of Sydney ... More >>
Spring is the Season for Vitamin D Deficiency
Monday, 24 September 2012, 12:51 pm | University of Sydney
September marks the start of spring but new research reveals it is also the month when Australians’ vitamin D levels are at their lowest ebb. The University of Sydney study also shows vitamin D deficiency affects more Australians and lasts longer than ... More >>
Party drug users risking memory loss
Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 9:35 am | University of Sydney
Party drug users risking memory loss Embargo 0700 Wednesday 19 September The party drug mephedrone can cause lasting damage to the brain, according to new research led by the University of Sydney. “Mephedrone is highly addictive in the worst possible ... More >>
Drug & Alcohol Handbook for Aboriginal Health Workers
Friday, 7 September 2012, 10:19 am | University of Sydney
It has to fit in the glove box and you shouldn’t need a medical degree to make sense of it. It needs to be practical and useful to someone working in Cape York or in Adelaide. I’d like it to help me work with families, the community and keep ... More >>
Women in Work demand flexible careers – green paper
Friday, 27 July 2012, 5:09 pm | University of Sydney
Women will remain underrepresented amongst corporate and business leaders until the private sector recognises the need for flexible working arrangements according to the authors of a Green Paper to be released at the University of Sydney Business ... More >>
Advice for winter cold and flu blues
Wednesday, 4 July 2012, 4:55 pm | University of Sydney
As many of us sniffle and cough our way through another winter, University of Sydney Professor Robert Booy , from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance at Sydney Medical School has some advice about colds and flu: More >>
How Useful Are Short-Term Medical Missions?
Thursday, 7 June 2012, 1:54 pm | University of Sydney
Australia is a world leader in sending medical personnel to less developed countries to assist with a variety of medical issues but the contribution of these missions has now been examined in a study, led by a University of Sydney academic, which calls ... More >>
Australia Must Abandon China Myths – Dean
Sunday, 27 May 2012, 10:23 am | University of Sydney
Australia must abandon some “wrongheaded myths” about future superpower rivalries if it is to prosper from its economic and political links with China and the United States, according to the Dean of the University of Sydney Business School. More >>
Australia’s Love-Hate Relationship with their Credit Cards
Monday, 21 May 2012, 12:13 pm | University of Sydney
A new University of Sydney study has revealed the full extent of Australia’s love-hate relationship with credit cards and those who use them. More >>
Gambling Not An Addiction - University Of Sydney Researchers
Friday, 11 May 2012, 1:37 pm | University of Sydney
11 May, 2012 Gambling Not An Addiction Say University Of Sydney Researchers Many people talk of problem gambling as an ‘addiction’ but work coming out of the University of Sydney’s Gambling Treatment Clinic suggests that this may not be ... More >>
Meditation Linked To Better Wellbeing And Health
Thursday, 10 May 2012, 3:26 pm | University of Sydney
10 May, 2012 Meditation Linked To Better Wellbeing And Health , Including Mental Health The experience of ‘mental silence’ is linked with better health outcomes and greater wellbeing according to a University of Sydney study. The area of greatest ... More >>
New Tool To Help Children With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Monday, 7 May 2012, 1:24 pm | University of Sydney
An international study led by the University of Sydney has the potential to improve the design of clinical trials for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a disorder which affects the peripheral nervous system. More >>
