Health

Brodaty

Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty has made a key contribution to the future shape of Australia’s health and medical research, as a member of the McKeon Review.

Hospital waiting

There are already encouraging signs that Medicare Locals are starting to deliver results. But if they’re axed, Australia could be derailing its path to a more equitable health system, write Mark Harris, Elizabeth Harris and Nick Zwar.

Boris Martinac

UNSW Conjoint Professor Boris Martinac has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to science.

Parker Grief bench dog

Widespread confusion about what constitutes grief, ‘normaI’ depression and clinical depression risks being exacerbated under psychiatry's new classification system, Scientia Professor Gordon Parker warns.

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One in four elderly people with mild cognitive impairment – a precursor to dementia – naturally ‘reverts’ to normal cognition, UNSW research shows.

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A community-initiated binge drinking awareness campaign in Indigenous communities is working, according to results released by UNSW's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Campus mall

The NSW government has funded the establishment of a new Chair in Intellectual Disability and Behaviour Support at UNSW.

Newsroom futurehealthleadersprogram Mar25

In partnership with the health sector, UNSW is offering a new workplace-based professional doctorate for emerging leaders in public health.

Soldier Afghanistan

Young men in the military are three times more likely than those in the general population to have committed a violent offence in their lifetime, new research shows.

Asthma

The first study of the effects of Sydney’s air pollution on the development of asthma has been carried out at UNSW.

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