Portugal's decision to decriminalise all drug use did not lead to dramatic increases in drug abuse or drug-related harm, a joint Australian and UK study has found.
UNSW epidemiologist Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver has been appointed to the board of the Lowitja Institute - Australia's national body dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
UNSW Professor and Executive Director of the Garvan Institute, John Shine, has been awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science, the nation's most highly respected award for scientific achievement.
It's not every day a medical scientist wins four major research grants in as many weeks. But for Professor Peter Gunning, receiving the grants worth close to $2 million is fitting recognition of 25 years of research.
Medical researchers have for the first time shown a link between a father's high fat diet at the time of conception and a risk of diabetes in his offspring.
Australia has reported its highest number of HIV infections since the early 1990s but cases of most other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections have dropped, data shows.
Researchers have advanced our understanding of how cancer migrates, showing that cancer cells are accompanied by 'helper' cells when they travel in the bloodstream.
