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Music For the Valley

Medical students give back with music

The Monash Medical Orchestra returned to Gippsland on Saturday 16 September for their highly anticipated annual concert, Music for the Valley held at Federation University.
27 September, 2023 Rural Health

Time for action in Alzheimer’s disease as new treatments advance

Expert leaders in the dementia field are calling for changes to the Australian health care system to enable appropriate use of new Alzheimer’s disease treatments, including monitoring their safety and value, setting up adequate facilities for
26 September, 2023 Clinical Sciences - The Alfred

MNHS researchers awarded $7.5million in NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence funding

The Federal Government has today announced $7.5 million in funding for three National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centres for Research Excellence led by Monash Medicine Nursing and Allied Health researchers.
26 September, 2023 Research

Alarming results from world first study of two decades of global smoke pollution

The world’s first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that over 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard
22 September, 2023 Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Monash-led national program to improve treatments for kids with muscle disease

A national clinical consortium has joined forces to improve care outcomes for children born with congenital muscle disease, led by Monash University’s Professor Peter Currie.
21 September, 2023 Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute

The DRIVERS force behind improving rural-based healthcare research

The health needs of people living in rural and remote Australia differ greatly in comparison to their metropolitan counterparts.
20 September, 2023 Rural Health
Professor Gail Risbridger (left) and Renea Taylor (right), co-leads of the Prostate Cancer Research Group

Overcoming tumour barriers for CAR T cell therapy in prostate cancer

A strategic collaboration between Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre’s Immunology Program has discovered a novel way in which solid cancers may be made responsive to immunotherapy.
20 September, 2023 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Gender gap

Climbing the ranks: Australia’s gender equity breakthrough

When Kylea Tink, Member for North Sydney, decried the “unconstructive noise and aggression” in Australia’s Parliament this week, she wasn’t merely venting frustration.
20 September, 2023 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health

Women from diverse backgrounds still face leadership barriers: study

Australian leaders with diverse backgrounds have opened up about the lack of First Nations and CALD women leaders.
19 September, 2023 Public Health and Preventive Medicine