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Professor Anthony Smith and his team have received the 2021 Excellence in Indigenous Engagement award, recognising more than two decades of telehealth experience supporting some of Australia’s most remote communities.

A semi-trailer will be converted into the world’s first mobile lung cancer screening facility to help boost early detection and increase survival rates in rural and remote Queensland where access to specialists is limited.

Queensland’s new Governor, Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM, recently visited Rockhampton where she met with senior representatives from the new Regional Medical Pathway, to discuss the rollout of the Australian-first university and hospital partnership that is set to train up to 60 doctors in regional Queensland each year.

Melanoma patients using their smart phone to submit images of lesions to their specialists appears to be a safe and convenient form of follow-up after treatment.

Australia’s healthcare system is struggling due to increasing demand, increasing burden of diseases and not enough resources. In an effort to meet that demand, health workers are able to enrol in a new course that recognises digital health as the way forward.

These babies fail to grow normally in the womb, often because they haven’t received enough nutrients and oxygen from the placenta.

Australians will have increased protection from the health impacts of climate change under a $10 million national research network established to tackle the issue with The University of Queensland.

Doctors and health experts have expressed shock on social media recently about the number of ICU patients on ECMO treatment, especially in Victoria.

Reducing the rate of infections in children with cancer is the focus of University of Queensland paediatric cancer research funded by the Cancer Council Queensland.

University of Queensland researchers have called on governments to quicken the pace towards a smoke-free Australia by increasing their attention on reducing the availability of cigarettes.

A new Australian collaborative Autism CRC study, led by Mater Research and The University of Queensland, has challenged the growing popular belief that the gut microbiome drives autism.

After COVID emerged, it didn’t take long for clinicians and scientists to notice the SARS-CoV-2 virus affects children and adults very differently.

Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, has launched the world’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide intervention training program.

​​​​​​​University of Queensland researchers will lead the creation of a national blueprint for screening melanoma - one of Australia’s most common and deadly cancers.

People with muscle mutations generate more heat than others in resting muscles putting them at greater risk of serious health events, according to University of Queensland researchers.

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by the Immunisation Coalition in collaboration with Australian researchers.

A pathway helping the breast cancer protein BRCA1 repair damaged DNA has been identified by University of Queensland researchers in a study that will inform future targeted therapies.

New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced that from November 1, quarantine will no longer be required for international arrivals who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study.

Screening Australian women for gestational diabetes would lead to long-term cost efficiencies, as well as improved health outcomes, according to a study by The University of Queensland and Mater Research.