Health

Closing in on our number one killer

18 Apr 2008

UNSW researchers have revealed new insights about Australia's number one killer - cardiovascular disease.

The whiff of success

15 Apr 2008

UNSW Research Fellow, Dr Katharina Gaus, has been awarded one of the world's most prestigious grants to look the cells which govern our sense of smell.

The heart of the matter

11 Apr 2008

UNSW has won the largest grant in a recent round of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

Millions of reasons to research global health

08 Apr 2008

UNSW researchers have been awarded $6.6 million to improve health in the Asia-Pacific region.

Strong feelings of grief are normal and healthy after the death of someone you love but recent research from UNSW suggests that some people grieve for so long that it becomes a significant mental illness.

Eye warning as occy straps lash out

20 Mar 2008

Easter-period travellers are being warned to take care with octopus straps that hospitalise 540 people each year with severe eye injuries.

Scaling the heights

19 Mar 2008

A UNSW medical student is preparing to climb her way into the record books, by scaling Mount Everest as part of a unique team.

Tackling dementia

17 Mar 2008

UNSW has won more grants than any other institution in the country, in a special round of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, aimed at tackling dementia.

A healthy start for Indigenous health

14 Mar 2008

In what promises to be good news for Indigenous health, UNSW has one of the largest intakes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in first-year medicine.

Reduced condom use and other STIs lead to more HIV in Australia's gay men

05 Mar 2008

HIV infection rates are predicted to rise by up to 75 percent in parts of Australia in the next seven years if the current trends continue, according to University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers, based at the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR).