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Warning: this video may cause side effects

10 Mar 2022

Is it possible that up to half the side effects reported in medical trials are all in people's heads? Is someone's expectation of a negative side effect strong enough to make it actually happen? And if so, how do medical researchers break this dangerous cycle?

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This laser is supposed to rejuvenate vaginal tissue. But scientists say it's no better than a placebo

13 Oct 2021

Vaginal laser therapy treatments claim to reduce negative vaginal symptoms of menopause – experienced by about half of all women – by up to 100 per cent. A new trial shows they might not work at all.

'Devastated and sad' after 36 years of research — early detection of ovarian cancer doesn't save lives

19 May 2021

I was motivated to improve the outcome for women with ovarian cancer by my experience as a junior doctor in London in 1985. But 36 years on, the results aren't what we'd hoped.

Sex and gender in health research: Australia lags behind

25 Nov 2019

Australian medical research needs to ensure men's and women’s medical issues are analysed equally, according to a report published today.

NHMRC supports concentration of efforts on substance use and mental disorders

11 Oct 2017

A new Centre of Research Excellence in mental illness and substance use is one of 36 UNSW projects or fellowships funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, to commence in 2018.

Explainer: how do drugs get from the point of discovery to the pharmacy shelf?

11 Oct 2017

Only 9.6% of new drugs in development in the years 2006-2015 successfully made it to the market to be used by patients.

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UNSW researchers win ticket to Nobel summit

18 Jun 2015

A UNSW cardiologist and a lung cancer researcher have been selected from a competitive field of Australian early career scientists to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany.

Young researchers are missing out in science's survival of the fittest

03 Jun 2015

It is a jungle out there, and the road for early career researchers is not easy, writes Louis Wang.

UNSW cancer expert to lead national medical research body

23 Feb 2015

As a researcher working on new treatments for pancreatic cancer and the wife of a cancer survivor, Dr Phoebe Phillips knows better than most the importance of medical research.

Top 5 under 40 - giving a voice to our new generation of science thinkers

03 Dec 2014

UNSW and ABC RN have launched Top 5 under 40, an exciting initiative to find Australia's early-career researchers with a flair and passion for communicating their work.

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