Internet access should be mandatory in all aged care facilities, according to a Dr John Murnane from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Catriona May reports.

Every year around 30 per cent of the world’s population suffers some form of mental disorder; and in low-income and middle-income countries, more than two thirds receive no treatment. Emma O’Neill looks at one way the University of Melbourne is working towards addressing this imbalance.

Immunologists are aware that the healthy human body is in a constant state of war with infectious microbes, protecting itself naturally and through vaccinations. The battlefield has spread to the media amidst claims that childhood immunisation can cause autism, leading to a drop in vaccination rates. This, in turn, has resulted in a drop in protection rates and the return of nearly eradicated diseases. Shane Cahill talks to Melbourne’s international leaders in the field ahead of the 2011 International Day of Immunology on 29 April.

Isolated by deserts of rich red soil and inhabited by a mere 500 people, Warburton is a town 1600km north-east of Perth which is helping to prove remote communities – with adequate and appropriate support – can not only prosper, but enlighten their metro neighbours about the meaning of community. Emma O’Neill reports.

Medicine was always on Brendan Jones’ radar but so was a crack at top level soccer.By Penny Moodie and Blaise Murphet.

University of Melbourne Alumna Dr Mary Glowrey, who became Sister Mary Glowrey and worked as a missionary in India from the 1920s until her death in 1957, may be made Australia’s second saint after the first stage of the canonisation process commenced in Bangalore, India in December last year. Zoe Nikakis reports.