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Increase in domestic violence over the Christmas period

20 Dec 2021

With safe spaces such as schools and work closed for Christmas, it's more important than ever to check in on family and friends. 

Development approval granted for UNSW's Health Translation Hub

16 Dec 2021

UNSW President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, says the approval is an exciting milestone in a collaboration that has been decades in the making.

Treatment for alcohol use disorder often not perceived as 'helpful': WHO survey analysis

10 Nov 2021

Fewer than half of people with alcohol use disorder who received professional help perceived their treatment as helpful.

A young girl wearing surgical mask leans against a wall

Kids' use of mental health services surges following 2020 lockdown

03 Nov 2021

Hospital data reveals an increased use of children’s mental health services after Sydney’s first lockdown in 2020.

a doll of a small child stands on ground decorated with blue and pink male and female anatomical symbols

Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people

26 Oct 2021

Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.

UNSW finalists announced in 2021 Eureka Prizes

02 Sep 2021

UNSW Sydney celebrates 10 finalists in the ‘Oscars of science’.

Home quarantine for vaccinated returned travellers is extremely low risk, and won’t damage their mental health

16 Jun 2021

People who contract COVID, and their contacts, have successfully self-isolated at home since the pandemic began.

UNSW launches 2021 Australian Mental Health Prize

09 Jun 2021

Chronic underinvestment in child mental health highlighted as nominations open for the 2021 Australian Mental Health Prize.

COVID Files: A day in the life of an immunologist

04 Jun 2021

What goes on in the life of an immunologist during a pandemic? Associate Professor Stuart Turville from UNSW Sydney and the Kirby Institute's Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program takes us through a day in the life of an immunologist. Images: Richard Freeman

A health care worker receiving a vaccine

Mandatory COVID vaccines for aged- and health-care workers could increase uptake, but we need to exhaust other options first

02 Jun 2021

If new incentives don't work, mandatory policies may be the only way forward in ensuring high COVID vaccine coverage of staff.

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