Next steps Did you know? Dr Pam Laird with young patient Charmaine Kelly A study evaluating a culturally secure intervention to facilitate medical ...

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Pneumococcal – a bacterial infection that can cause pneumonia and meningitis – is responsible for thousands of hospital admissions in Australia each ...

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Immunotherapy is the new holy grail of cancer treatment – using the patient’s own immune system to fight the disease. But this revolutionary therapy ...

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Researchers within the Cancer Immunology and Biology group are working to develop safer immunotherapy and personalised medicine treatments across various deadly childhood cancers, including brain cancer, sarcoma, leukaemia, and neuroblastoma. ...

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Strategy a chance to end the cycle of sadness For Pat Turner, CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and ...

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Evaluating early childhood education in the villages of Northern Laos Northern Laos is a challenging place to run an education system. The ...

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Not all children or teenagers identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. As a result, some may choose to change their name, their clothes or their body. With considerably higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and attempted suicide, the need for specialist mental health services has been recognised. ...

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Closing the Gap Six Closing the Gap targets were created in 2008 in response to a call to achieve equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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Aboriginal Research Project Officer, Danielle Hedland, assisting Schools Coordinator, Sistha Halim, lead a class in their experiment. What do ...

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It was the right story at the right time: six months into COVID-19, as the world was reeling from the relentless blows of a ballooning pandemic, ...

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