On the eighth of March each year, people worldwide commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) to acknowledge the significant contributions and accomplishments of women, and to mobilise efforts towards achieving gender equality in various social, cultural, and political and economic domains.
University of Queensland medical students who completed a 12-week training program in a rural or remote area were more likely to work as doctors in similar communities, a study has shown.
Queenslanders are being challenged to slash the state’s skin cancer numbers by a quarter over the next 3 decades with a new report showing we’ve dropped the ball on prevention of the deadly disease.
The University of Queensland’s Dr Dung Phung has been honoured with an $8,445,649 million grant to lead development of a user-friendly digital prediction tool that will help prevent dengue disease in Vietnam.
Global food security concerns are growing, stirred by climate change, biodiversity loss, depletion of soil nutrients and over-exploitation of water sources. If we want a future that sustains the world, we must learn to serve nature first.
After saving millions of lives globally from cervical cancer, HPV vaccine co-inventor Emeritus Professor Ian Frazer AC has taken the first steps towards retirement.
Poisonous poppy seeds have sent a number of people around Australia to hospital with severe symptoms – from muscle cramping and spasms to seizures and cardiac arrests – prompting a nationwide recall of certain batches and brands of this common pantry item.
Tap water in more than 500 remote Indigenous communities isn’t regularly tested and often isn’t safe to drink, according to a water industry report released last week. In some communities, drinking water contained unacceptable levels of uranium, arsenic, fluoride and nitrate.