To mark the full implementation of Australia’s world-first plain tobacco packaging legislation, Melbourne Law School and the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer recently launched a new book, Public Health and Plain Packaging of Cigarettes: Legal Issues (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012). The book offers an in-depth analysis of the domestic and international legal issues surrounding plain tobacco packaging, and is edited by Tania Voon, Andrew Mitchell and Glyn Ayres of Melbourne Law School and Jonathan Liberman, Director of the McCabe Centre. Navina Smith spoke to Melbourne Law School’s Associate Dean (Research) Professor Tania Voon to find out more.

Research shows sunshine is vital to health and our fears of skin cancer may have scared us too far into the shade for our own good. Annie Rahilly reports.

While the recent red tides at Victorian and NSW beaches were visually striking, the microscopic algae that caused them have a criminal past. Nerissa Hannink reports.

Health informatics is a super-fast-growing field and University of Melbourne medical students and alumni are in the thick of it. By Elizabeth Brumby.

Melbourne alumnus Dr Jamie Robertson has been delivering a pro-bono dental health program in Vietnam for over 20 years. In early 2013, Vietnamese-born Bachelor of Dental Science student Mimi Huynh will travel with Dr Robertson to give dental care to those who need it most. ByElizabeth Brumby.

Research into the causes of mitochondrial disease using gene sequencing technology has set a current benchmark for knowledge about this genetic disease. By Liz Banks-Anderson.