Health & Medicine

New Centre to boost the health of biostatistics

Volume 8 Number 6 June 11 - July 8 2012

A new Centre of Research Excellence will train biostaticians to help bridge the gap between quantitative data in the health sciences, and our ability to analyse it. By Silvia Dropulich.

Essays on Australia

Volume 8 Number 5 May 14 - June 9 2012

The John Button Foundation is seeking essay entries for the 2012 John Button School Prize. Following is an edited extract of the 2011 school prize winning entry by Thomas Posa (Melbourne High School). The University Of Melbourne sponsors the John Button Prize.

Girl’s own adventure

Volume 8 Number 5 May 14 - June 9 2012

The University community recently celebrated Nancy Millis’s 90th birthday, and her significant contribution to agricultural science. Annie Rahilly reports.

Treatment hope for muscular dystrophy

Volume 8 Number 5 May 14 - June 9 2012

A new discovery into a treatment hope for muscular dystrophy may soon be developed to reduce the debilitating symptoms of the condition in boys. By Rebecca Scott.

Understanding child health in same-sex families

Volume 8 Number 5 May 14 - June 9 2012

Katherine Smith speaks with Simon Crouch about a study on the health and wellbeing of children raised in same-sex attracted families he is conducting within the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, the McCaughey VicHealth Centre, in the Melbourne School of Population Health.

Revealing the mind’s complexity through art

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

After a 60-year struggle to find a rightful place for works of art created by people with experience of mental illness or trauma, the Cunningham Dax Collection has found a permanent home at the University of Melbourne’s new Kenneth Myer Building in Royal Parade. Gabrielle Murphy reports.

Burden of the present – hope of the future

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

Professor Jim Bishop AO, Executive Director of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Melbourne, is fostering the collaborations and partnerships that will become the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, to be ready for 2015.

Fulfilling their potential

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

Joe Fennessy speaks to medical students and the Head of the Melbourne Medical School Professor James Best about the huge contribution student scholarships make in supporting the training of health professionals.

Luminaries of the Melbourne Medical School

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

Over 150 years graduates of the Melbourne Medical School have improved the lives of countless individuals. Many staff members have also made major contributions in medical science. These are some who have made significant, enduring changes in their fields.

A special contribution: 125 years of women in medical science

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

Women fought hard to gain entry to university education, none harder than those whose vocation drew them to study medicine. Penny Moodie reports on the Melbourne Medical School’s pioneer women.

Flying the kite for kids

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

Blaise Murphett and Katherine Smith look at a program for children affected by cancer in the family.

Overcoming the toxicity of gluten in coeliac disease

Volume 8 Number 4 April 9 - May 13 2012

In the lead-up to the International Day of Immunology, Katherine Smith talks to Dr Jason Tye-Din about new developments in treating coeliac disease.