UNSW scientists have grown human pancreatic cancer tumours in the lab – their model is the first of its kind, with important future clinical implications.
Recipients of the 2019 HDR Speed Mentoring Award and PhD candidates Yunhe Huang, Buna Bhandari Bhattarai and Sylvester Okeke ran a qualitative research webinar series for students and novice researchers.
Sarah Clark (UNSW's Wagga Wagga Rural Clinical School) received the Rural Doctors Association of Australia’s (RDAA) Medical Student of the Year Award 2020 for her dedication to rural health.
Achieving high COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health workers will not only protect these critical staff members, it will support high levels of uptake among the public.
The best approach for protecting everyone’s health will require us to provide different vaccines to different people according to need and availability.
Australia's expedited plan to start dishing out COVID jabs in mid-late February will call for NASA-like logistical organisation. And ideally, no more clusters of infections to distract frontline workers.
Evidence suggest people with dementia are more likely to contract COVID-19 and to have severe disease outcomes from the virus, including increased risk of death.
Babies and asymptomatic cases account for up to half of COVID-19 infections in the under-five age group, which has implications for vaccination programs, a new UNSW study has found.
A new UNSW evidence review has found there is still no consensus between researchers about why exercise works for low back pain patients – despite decades of studies on the topic.
Teaching people to gain control over their brain to relieve chronic pain and improving food and water security are two of the innovative UNSW Sydney projects to receive Ideas Grants.
A team of leading Sydney researchers is pioneering the use of a fast genomic sequencing technology to help determine the source of hard-to-trace coronavirus cases.
The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol on brain health is compelling, but now experts have pin-pointed three key time periods in life when the effects of alcohol are likely to be at their greatest.
