Health

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

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.

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).

One of the world's leading researchers in dementia, Professor John Hodges, has taken up an appointment with UNSW and the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.