In ten or 20 years there will be inquiries into the serious harms inflicted by immigration detention. We will listen and ask ourselves why “good people stood by”, write Karen Zwi and Nicholas Talley.
The next generation of doctors who dream of a country practice will soon be able to gain a world-class medical education closer to home, thanks to a $20 million medical & allied health campus unveiled at Port Macquarie.
Earlier diagnosis of HIV and peer support for those newly diagnosed reduces the likelihood of onward transmission of the infection, according to a UNSW Kirby Institute report released today.
UNSW medical scientists have discovered that DNA repair is compromised at important regions of our genome, shedding new light on how cancers develop in the human body.
We have developed a stem cell technique capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease or ageing, write John Pimanda, Ralph Mobbs and Vashe Chandrakanthan.
Mental health treatment for the 135,000 people in New South Wales living with an intellectual disability is set to improve, thanks to a world-first manual to guide mental health professionals.
Australia needs to develop new and better mechanisms to translate stem cell reseach into effective therapies, write Martin Pera, Megan Munsie and Richard P Harvey.
Balancing motherhood and academia is set to become a little easier for women in UNSW Medicine, thanks to a new scholarship named in honour of NSW Woman of the Year Professor Minoti Apte.
'Tough on drugs' approaches to getting troubled young people off methamphetamine and ice don’t work writes Sally Nathan, Andrew Hayen Patrick Rawstorne and Ranmalie Jayasinha.
The number of at-risk adolescents in drug and alcohol treatment programs who reported taking methamphetamines doubled in the five years to 2014, new research shows.
Scientific uncertainty around the 2014 Ebola outbreak forced Australian healthcare workers to decide for themselves the risks they were prepared to take to treat patients, UNSW research shows.
Almost 270,000 Australians are regular users of methamphetamine, with the number of young people dependent on the drug more than doubling in the past five years, UNSW research shows.
If you care about your health, animal welfare and the environment consider joining the 4% of the Australian population following vegetarian or vegan eating habits, writes Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds.
