Work-related mental health conditions: advice for GPs
New Australian clinical practice guideline recommendations to assist GPs with the diagnosis and management of work-related mental health conditions (MHCs) have been released, and are summarised in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Primary and Allied Health Care 15 July, 2019
Breast cancer research gains welcome boost
Professor Roger Daly, Head of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) Cancer Program, has received a major grant from the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and Love Your Sister Foundation (LYSF).
Biomedicine Discovery Institute 15 July, 2019
Department of Surgery celebrates 50 years
The Department of Surgery in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health has celebrated its 50th anniversary with a dinner held at the Monash Club on Friday, 7 June 2019.
Clinical Sciences - Monash Health 15 July, 2019
Medicine graduate Sam Cooper helping to improve the lives of resettled refugees
Being able to make a small yet positive impact to those he encounters is what graduate, Sam Cooper, hopes a career in medicine will bring.
Clinical Sciences - Monash Health 15 July, 2019
Introducing the PIE-scope: a microscope enabling targeted in situ structural biology
A novel microscope designed by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) scientists can dramatically reduce the time it takes scientists to track down molecules of interest within cells for structural characterisation.
Biomedicine Discovery Institute 11 July, 2019
Shining light into the ‘black box’ of influenza may lead to better vaccines
In a paper published in Nature Communications, Professors Nicole La Gruta and Tony Purcell, and Dr Nathan Croft and their teams from the Monash BDI, have revealed, using a mouse model of flu infection, how the immune system ‘presents’
Biomedicine Discovery Institute 8 July, 2019
Monash research a class act in prestigious Nature Index
Monash University has placed firmly among the world’s elite research institutions in the global rankings of the influential Nature Index, which measures contributions to high-quality scientific research papers.
Biomedicine Discovery Institute 5 July, 2019
New home for biomedical science education officially open
The Biomedical Learning and Teaching Building was officially opened by Professor Margaret Gardner AO, Monash’s President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Christina Mitchell AO, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and
Biomedicine Discovery Institute 5 July, 2019
Can psychological trauma be passed down to children?
Dr Joanne Ryan, Head of the Biological Neuropsychiatry and Dementia Unit, is in the midst of an exciting project exploring epigenetic changes that affect mental health, and how these may be passed down through generations.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine 28 June, 2019