UNSW Medicine & Health

Play it safe and respect the river this summer

13 Dec 2021

Despite their beauty, rivers can be deadly and remain the top location for drowning

Long COVID, IVF success and the Delta variant: some of our most-read medicine stories of 2021

13 Dec 2021

For the second year running, it was no surprise readers were still hungry for COVID-19 stories as new findings and variants emerged in 2021.

Kendelle Murphy, Frances Byrne, Antoine de Weck, Brooke Pereira, Abba Habibalahi, Benjamin Daniels and Ben Smith

Early and mid-career researchers recognised with fellowships from Cancer Institute NSW

10 Dec 2021

Medicine, science and biomedical engineering academics receive grants to explore new approaches to cancer treatment.

Blood smear under microscopy showing on Adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts a type of white blood cell.

It's not all in their DNA: cancer cells with the same genome can behave differently

09 Dec 2021

Scientists have tracked and analysed cancer cell behaviour with a novel cellular ‘barcoding technology’.

Doctor using sphygmomanometer with stethoscope checking blood pressure to a patient in the hospital.

Experts call for urgent action to improve control rates of high blood pressure

06 Dec 2021

Leading experts on hypertension have issued a call to action to improve uncontrolled blood pressure in Australia.

UNSW Medicine & Health boasts two Rhodes Scholars in one year

03 Dec 2021

Mudith Jayasekara and Rosemary Kirk will receive the prestigious scholarships to continue their studies at Oxford.

Selfies: Is your life worth a few 'likes'?

03 Dec 2021

One minute the young man was standing on the edge of a cliff, taking a selfie. The next minute, tragedy struck. 

Five UNSW researchers recognised at NSW Premier's Prizes for Science and Engineering

01 Dec 2021

The pioneering researchers have been honoured for excellence in biological sciences, physical sciences and innovation.

closeup of a young man with a red awareness ribbon for the fight against AIDS in his hand

HIV diagnoses in Australia lowest since 1980s, but COVID-19 a likely driver

01 Dec 2021

Forty years after the first case of AIDS was described in the United States, the number of people diagnosed with HIV in Australia is at an all-time low.

Global HIV viral suppression rates too low among children and adolescents

30 Nov 2021

An analysis published in the lead up to World AIDS Day reveals that HIV is ‘virally suppressed’ in only 59 per cent of children and adolescents on treatment.

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