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Australian Breast Device Registry helps with patient safety

Almost 50,000 Australian women have had their breast devices registered, mostly in the past five years, to help facilitate faster notification of safety issues with the devices, leading to improved health outcomes.
1 March, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine
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The long-term consequences of sport concussions

Australian football is the most popular collision sport in Australia – with an average of 6-7 concussions occurring every 1000 match hours across amateur and professional leagues. Despite this high incidence of mild traumatic brain injury,
1 March, 2021 Clinical Sciences - The Alfred

Trial finds arthritis drugs reduce deaths and time in ICU for critical COVID-19 patients

Two arthritis treatments, the immunosuppressive drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab, have been found to have a significant impact on the survival rate of critically ill COVID-19 patients, with mortality reduced by 8.5 per cent.
1 March, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Monash Castan Centre, aged care advocacy group makes UN submission on quality of care in aged facilities during COVID-19

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University and the Professor Joe Aged Care Advocacy Group have made a submission to the United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons.
26 February, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Lessons Around my Teachers and Mentors

Read this reflection written by MNHS alumnus Professor Samuel Menahem, acknowledging the valuable and enduring contribution and impact of teachers and mentors (including Monash’s Foundation Professor of Paediatrics), and explaining how these
25 February, 2021 Alumni

PhD profile: Epigenetic research to diagnose dementia before symptoms begin

Peter Fransquet came to his PhD following undergraduate study in biotechnology and biomedicine. He completed an honours project under the supervision of our Head of Biological Neuropsychiatry and Dementia, A/Prof Joanne Ryan.
25 February, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Gwo-Yaw Ho

Success at ANZGOG Annual Scientific Meeting

Translational Oncology researcher Dr Gwo-Yaw Ho’s research on aggressive ovarian cancer has been recognised at the 2021 Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG) Annual Scientific Meeting.
24 February, 2021 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health
Penny Whiley

Male infertility and testicular cancer research recognised

Congratulations to Penny Whiley on receiving the prestigious lecture prize at the International Congress of Andrology.
24 February, 2021 Clinical Sciences - Monash Health

Melbourne finally has a Crown royal commission — is this going to stop crime and gambling harm?

The Victorian government has announced a royal commission into Crown Melbourne, following the damning findings of the Bergin inquiry into Crown’s Sydney casino licence earlier this month.
24 February, 2021 Public Health and Preventive Medicine