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A new high-flow oxygen technique is as safe as standard anaesthetic methods during tubeless upper airway surgery in children, according to University of Queensland research.

Only a small proportion of elite swimmers regularly checked their skin for signs of cancer despite being at increased risk, according to University of Queensland research.

A First Nations child born in Australia today can expect to live eight to nine years less than a non-Indigenous child born on the same day, writes Danielle Harrop for the Conversation.

Professor Lauren Ball pays tribute to the late Michael Mosely via the Conversation.

A University of Queensland-led study has found multiple doses of anaesthetics do not compromise brain function in young children.

A UQ researcher has been awarded more than $3.8 million from the Medical Research Future Fund to trial a revolutionary therapy for patients with a rare form of brain cancer.

Australia has often been called the “allergy capital of the world,” Associate Professor Jennifer Coplin writes for the Conversation.

For many Australians the emergency department (ED) is the physical and emblematic front door to accessing urgent health-care services but the ED is expanding into new telehealth models to improve access to emergency medical care, Dr Jaimon Kelly writes for the Conversation.

A University of Queensland-developed program has proven successful in improving outcomes for infants with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in low- and middle-income settings.  

Last week’s federal budget committed A$12.5 million over four years to deliver tampons, pads and other period care products to people who menstruate in rural and remote Indigenous communities.

University of Queensland research has found exercise can help prevent or slow cognitive decline during ageing.

With olive oil rising in price, Professor Lauren Ball writes what alternatives can be used in her latest Conversation article.

Faculty of Medicine researchers discuss sleep wrinkles via the Conversation.

A new drug could prevent sepsis-related organ failure and death by restoring the health of a patient’s blood vessels.

UQ Faculty of Medicine academics will be taking science out of their labs and into Brisbane pubs as they participate in the Pint of Science festival in mid-May.

Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine are among 24 academics across The University of Queensland who have received more than $41 million through the NHMRC 2024 Investigator Grants.

University of Queensland researchers have received more than $2.6 million through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Projects scheme to inform health policy and improve patient outcomes.

A large-scale, international study conducted by UQ researchers has found people with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, are up to four times more likely to have two or more chronic physical health conditions.

Forty-five per cent of patients admitted to hospital for atrial fibrillation (AF) in Australia and New Zealand die within a decade, according to University of Queensland research.

Surveys involving thousands of adolescents and their primary caregiver have shown the prevalence of mental disorders within the age group is very different across Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam.