Medical Research Discoveries
Breakthroughs from Australian medical research institutes
Breakthroughs from Australian medical research institutes
Stories from 58 of Australia's medical research institutes:
The Moving Pictures initiative from the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is a project created to provide non-English speaking communities with information and resources about dementia, and support Australian dementia and aged care services in becoming more inclusive towards culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
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A new experimental drug to treat sepsis has now entered the next stage of clinical trials in patients in Australia after successfully completing Phase 1a trials in healthy volunteers, reports Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics.... more
Based on research from The George Institute for Global Health, breakthrough technology in the world’s first affordable dialysis system to treat kidney failure is being developed to prevent millions of deaths each year.... more
A trans-national clinical trial, involving Peter Mac patients, has found stereotactic ablative body radiation therapy (SABR) provides superior relief from painful spinal lesions than standard radiation therapy.... more
Understanding how stomach cancer develops and progresses to invasive stages could lead to much-needed, better treatments - a challenge that WEHI researchers, Dr Lorraine O’Reilly and Dr Tracy Putoczki, have risen to. Their team is investigating inflammatory signalling molecules that may contribute to stomach cancer.
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