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Saving youth from mental health, suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse

19 June 2013
Professor Michael Farrell and Professor Pat McGorry to address Dean’s Lecture Series at UNSW Medicine Young Australians could be at a higher risk of drug and alcohol addiction before they are even...

Notable Mentions

14 June 2013
One of the country’s leading oncologists and researchers, Professor Robyn Ward, is among UNSW staff and alumni to be recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours. Professor Ward was...

Leading medical education in Sydney's West

13 June 2013
Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has launched a state-of-the-art medical training facility at Liverpool Hospital. Run by UNSW Medicine, the Ingham Institute Clinical Skills and Simulation...

Innovation finalists announced

11 June 2013
A suicide prevention app, a laser sensor to measure aircraft speed, and a toolkit for point-of-care DNA diagnostics are three technologies in the running for the 2013 UNSW Innovation Awards....

Heads in the sand is no way to face cancer risks

5 June 2013
OPINION: What if medical science offered you and your closest family members the opportunity to virtually eliminate your risk of developing certain cancers? In this case, there would be no invasive...

Peter Smith elected President of Medical Deans

5 June 2013
The newly elected President of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand has warned against politicians supporting new rural medical schools in the upcoming federal election campaign. “What Australia...

Despite good prognosis, some turn a blind eye to genetic screening

4 June 2013
Even if Australians with newly diagnosed bowel cancer were routinely tested for a genetic predisposition to further cancers, one in three people would still not take the necessary steps to use that...

Occupy Healthcare - Social media can revolutionise medicine

31 May 2013
OPINION: Can you smell revolution in the air? Social media like Twitter and Facebook helped catalyze the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement’s global protests. Social media are often beyond the...

Indigenous prison rates are a national shame

29 May 2013
OPINION: The continual rise in incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians represents nothing short of social policy disaster. If reducing the numbers of those in prison is to be achieved, then we...

ENCORE: an international study funded by the Gates Foundation

24 May 2013
ENCORE: an international study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and co-ordinated by The Kirby Institute The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s links with the Kirby Institute at the...

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