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Hospital grade antenatal care without leaving home

A trial of antenatal care provided remotely to expectant mothers at home has shown the level of care is as good as a face-to-face consultation, including the identification of common complications.
30 July, 2021 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health

The most challenging time for hospital foodservice

Can you imagine being the leader of a team responsible for providing more than three meals a day, every single day for more than 600 people? Feeding patients involves taking menu orders, cooking, heating, plating, checking and transporting meals to
30 July, 2021 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health

How’s your cholesterol?

How’s your cholesterol? Professor Stephen Nicholls from Monash Victorian Heart Institute is a guest on “Ask the Doc” podcast, where he explains that many of us have ‘the gene’ that causes high cholesterol.
29 July, 2021 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health

New Director of MonCOEH announced

We’re extremely happy to announce a successor to Professor Malcolm Sim AM, who retired recently from his role as Head of the Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health. The role will be filled by British academic Professor Karen
29 July, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Understanding how putting the hand brake on genes could halt cancer

Genes in the human genome are made of DNA. Upon gene expression, a segment of DNA is copied into another molecule called RNA.
28 July, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
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Helping new mums sleep better without medication

Poor sleep during pregnancy and in the first months post-birth can have long lasting psychological and physical consequences for both mother and baby. New research from Monash University has found that a non-drug sleep program, using Cognitive
28 July, 2021 Turner Institute

Monash Rural Health Gippsland appoints Dr James Brown OAM as Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor

Dr James Brown OAM has been appointed as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor with Monash Rural Health (MRH) Gippsland in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.
23 July, 2021 Rural Health

Funding for a new training centre for optimal ageing

Monash University has been awarded $4.58 million from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Program to establish a new ARC Training Centre for Optimal Ageing.
22 July, 2021 Turner Institute

Digital Dashboards to deliver reliable, quick and easy-to-access data

A $2.1 million project to collect patient data in one place aims to better equip healthcare workers when making critical and life-saving clinical decisions.
22 July, 2021 Eastern Health