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An Australian-first university and hospital partnership is set to train up to 40 doctors in regional Queensland each year.

Dr Leanne Coombe has been featured in Wiley’s NAIDOC Week content collection.

Methamphetamine ‘cooks’ in domestic labs are most likely to be male, Caucasian and about 30 years old, according to University of Queensland researchers.

Congratulations to UQDI Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani, who has been awarded an Accelerating Collaborative Cancer Research (ACCR) grant from Cancer Council Queensland.

Congratulations to Dr Margaret Kay, who has been awarded the 2020 RACGP Queensland Faculty Award, acknowledging her tireless work in the field of doctors’ health.

The molecular mechanisms that underpin the way in which milk is transported through the mammary network and toward the nipple during lactation has been visualised in breathtaking new clarity by researchers at the University of Queensland.

Two Faculty of Medicine researchers have been awarded grants through the Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs) scheme.

UQCCR Director Professor David Paterson and researcher Dr Susan de Jersey have been honoured in the 2020 Metro North Research Excellence Awards.

University of Queensland researcher Dr Cheneal Puljevic has been awarded the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD)’s Early Career Award for 2020.

Genetics rather than environmental factors are linked to a higher risk of heart and metabolic disease in later life for lower birthweight babies, according to a new study.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many have felt anxious about going to the GP and other health facilities, believing these places have had a greater risk of transmission.

Dr Lachlan Rash has been awarded a MS Research Australia Incubator Grant of $25,000 for one year to continue his research into Multiple Sclerosis (MS) drug development.

Australia’s largest and longest running women’s health survey has secured $8.5m in funding.

Faculty of Medicine Dr Emma Thomas from the Centre for Online Health (COH), Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR) has been awarded a prestigious two year post-doctoral fellowship from The Heart Foundation.

Delivering healthcare services online can cut costs for patients, but not necessarily for providers, according to a new study.

UQDI researcher Associate Professor Antje Blumenthal has been recognised with a 2020 Georgina Sweet Award for Women in Quantitative Biomedical Science.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in rapid changes to the way Australians access health care. We’re now using telehealth more than ever.

Diabetes-related vision loss is the leading cause of blindness for working-aged Australians. Yet it’s almost entirely preventable.

In the largest study of its kind to date, UQ researchers have identified 48 genetic variants that influence if a person is left-handed, right-handed or ambidextrous.

People with pale coloured melanomas are more likely to have a gene mutation associated with albinism, University of Queensland research has found.