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The Faculty of Medicine is celebrating four respected researchers who are among the roll call of UQ community members recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Drinking alcohol while pregnant can have a devastating impact on the developing baby, leading to poor cognition and behaviour.

In Australia, an average baby boy born in 2016 could expect to live to 80, while a baby girl born at the same time could expect to live until closer to 85. A similar gap in life expectancy between men and women is seen around the world.

Congratulations to members of the Faculty of Medicine who were recognised for their outstanding service at the annual UQ Awards for Excellence.

Some doctors fear litigation and professional ruin if they are seen to have overprescribed opioids to terminally ill patients, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

Women who experience symptoms of depression are at risk of developing multiple chronic diseases, research led by The University of Queensland has found.

Scientists from The University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute have revealed the difference between a stem cell and other blood vessel cells using gene-sequencing technology.

Families with a high prevalence of breast cancer may soon know more about why they are at a greater risk of developing the disease.

Thyroid hormones should no longer be offered to patients with a moderately underactive thyroid gland, according to new guidelines published in collaboration with The University of Queensland.

As Australia’s aged care royal commission hears testimony about the treatment of people with dementia in residential aged care, the use of restraints is front and centre.

Instead of slowing down, New Zealanders appear to increase their pre-drinking after the age of 30, a University of Queensland study has found.

Congratulations to Professor Ranjeny Thomas, who has been awarded the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Eric Susman Prize for 2018.

Adolescents who self-harm experience heightened sensations across their skin and misjudge bodily cues such as hunger and headaches, University of Queensland-led research has found.

A world-wide competition will pit human against machine in a virtual high-tech car chase this weekend.

A large genetic study revealing new insights about how genes influence birth weight could eventually help ensure babies are born at a healthy weight.

In a first of its kind, seven early-career research grants have been awarded from a funding collaboration between the Metro North Office of Research, and three academic and research institutions.

You might love sugary doughnuts, but your friends find them too sweet and only take small nibbles. That’s partly because your genes influence how you perceive sweetness and how much sugary food and drink you consume.

Imagine you’re looking for your keys and you think you might have left them on the bookshelf. But when you look, you see nothing but books. A natural conclusion to draw is that the keys are not there.

The wheels are in motion to help find a cure for motor neurone disease, following the announcement of a new research grant to The University of Queensland.

Administering ibuprofen immediately after birth may reduce brain damage in tiny growth-restricted babies, University of Queensland researchers have found.