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.
University of Queensland researchers are calling for an urgent review of low influenza vaccination rates for pregnant women and whooping cough vaccinations for young and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander mothers-to-be.
Digital drugs are a phenomenon about which little is known. The consumption of digital drugs involves listening to binaural beats - sound which is claimed to mimic the experience of psychoactive drugs, or to elicit specific cognitive or emotional states, often while using ingestible psychoactive substances at the same time. But how common is this practice, and who is using digital drugs, and why? These are the questions our team of researchers from the Global Drug Survey (GDS) aimed to find out through an exploratory analysis of data.
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), first discovered in Japan in 1871, is an arbovirus (ARthropod-BOrne VIRUS). It is transmitted by mosquitoes, which are arthopods - invertebrate animals that have jointed legs, like spiders, flies and centipedes.
Young people who stop using cannabis or amphetamines before becoming adults experience life success at the same levels of those who have never used drugs, according to a University of Queensland study.
Professor Ruth Hubbard, Masonic Chair of Geriatric Medicine at the Centre for Health Services Research, compares superhero lifestyles, personality traits and behaviours against healthy ageing outcomes.
