Philanthropist Sir Owen Glenn has donated $3 million for research to be led by UNSW academics at the Microbiome Research Centre, based at St George Hospital.
A UNSW panel will discuss a national death reporting system for Australians with an intellectual disability, as part of efforts to reduce avoidable deaths.
The participants who chose more organically grown foods over 4.5 years had slightly lower rates of cancer. But it doesn't necessarily mean one thing caused the other.
Research of microbiota in health and disease has received a federal funding boost, with an additional $4 million committed towards the Microbiome Research Centre.
Janne McMahon, an extraordinary mental health consumer advocate, and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at UNSW, have been awarded this year's Australian Mental Health Prize.
