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A radical ‘grass roots’ approach for providing health care to rural Australia is being pioneered in a new La Trobe University research project valued at almost a million dollars. Based on an award-winning community participation model in Scotland, it aims to turn on its head existing methods of planning and designing health services. Head of […]
December 6, 2011
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one of the few people who have survived Motor neurone disease. Almost paralysed, he has lived with the disease for about 50 years, trapped in a failing body. A group of closely related disorders, motor neurone disease affects the nerve cells controlling muscles in the brain and spinal cord, resulting in […]
September 5, 2011
Genes targeted for potential new-generation drugs: Alex Maier chose Australia as the best place to further his studies seeking a cure for malaria – a disease that kills more than one million people every year, most of them children. This year the former German scientist was chosen as Victorian finalist in the highly contested […]
September 5, 2011
First study to seek views of clinicians and regulators: Having done away with controversial laws barring single and lesbian women from fertility treatment, Victoria’s revised legislation is likely to cause new problems – both for women and clinicians seeking to help them. This is revealed in a recent study published in the ‘Journal of Law […]
September 5, 2011
Landmark study probes impact on global climate science: Smoke from Victoria’s disastrous bushfires of 2009 circled the globe for more than three months, at heights previously thought unlikely, a La Trobe University study has found. The findings have been published in the leading Journal of Geophysical Research. They challenged conventional scientific wisdom that fire-borne aerosols – […]
September 17, 2013
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