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.
Lisa Dingwall may be a twin, but she is also one of a kind! As Executive Assistant to the Director of the UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), Professor David Paterson, it’s clear that Lisa is a natural organiser.
Often there is a compelling story or connection associated with a donor’s bequest – for Elizabeth Roberts and her sister Rosemary Roberts it was undoubtedly both.
A fleeting encounter with a patient while touring a northern European mental health facility in the 1990s is a moment Professor Harvey Whiteford has never forgotten.
2022 is a milestone year for The University of Queensland Rural Clinical School as it marks 20 years since its doors opened with the objective of improving the regional, rural and remote medical workforce in Australia.
Researcher Maryanne Cleetus from UQ’s School of Public Health said access to safe, timely and compassionate abortions was being impeded by affordability, stigma, a lack of knowledge and family violence.
Indigenous people recorded the highest rates of smoking cessation with support from a community program aimed at reducing tobacco consumption in Central Queensland.
University of Queensland researchers will partner with American biopharmaceutical company EpicentRx Inc. to evaluate new treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD), speeding up development of potential new therapies.
