Health & Medicine

Harnessing the power of Indigenous art, music and voices to eliminate trachoma

Volume 8 Number 12 December 10 2012 - January 14 2013

An educational campaign to reach remote communities is using the power of art, music and women’s voices to eradicate trachoma. By Rebecca Scott.

Balancing life and work

Volume 8 Number 12 December 10 2012 - January 14 2013

Forget the commute. Avoid the filthy office kitchen. And never again listen to that colleague with the annoying laugh. New technology and some fresh thinking means the 21st century Australian breadwinner will spend an increasing amount of time working from home.  By Ryan Sheales andAnnie Rahilly.

Research icons forge closer links with the University

Volume 8 Number 11 November 12 - December 9 2012

Three new departments within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will help make advances into critical areas of medical research. By Elizabeth Brumby and Joe Fennessy.

Making a global difference

Volume 8 Number 11 November 12 - December 9 2012

Nossal Institute of Global Health is directing a health and education revolution. Chris Weaverspoke to its director, Professor Graham Brown, and research candidate Steph Topp, about their innovative approach.

The living classroom – learning on country

Volume 8 Number 11 November 12 - December 9 2012

For the second year, students from the Maningrida College in the Northern Territory have ventured to Melbourne on the Venom Trail. But the learning was not just one way, as staff and students from Melbourne discovered. By Annie Rahilly.

Seeing things from a new angle

Volume 8 Number 11 November 12 - December 9 2012

A new University outreach optometry initiative – the first of its kind in Australia – is helping create significant health outcomes and opening student eyes to a new way of learning. By Kate O’Hara.

Collaborative research from bench to bedside

Volume 8 Number 10 October 8 - November 11 2012

Collaborative research from ‘bench to bedside’ is making a difference in the field of neuroscience. By Liz Banks-Anderson.

Solemn recognition for Melbourne’s first Indigenous medical graduate

Volume 8 Number 10 October 8 - November 11 2012

The University of Melbourne has conferred a rare and significant cultural gift and one of its highest honours on a respected trailblazer. By Gabrielle Murphy

Vitamin D trial: the sunshine factor in MS?

Volume 8 Number 9 September 3 - October 8 2012

Vitamin D for MS? A great unknown being tackled at the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute. ByAnnie Rahilly.

Artist’s tribute to Cochlear implant inventor

Volume 8 Number 9 September 3 - October 8 2012

Artist and Cochlear implant recipient Peter Gresham has exhibited an intriguing portrait of Professor Graeme Clark, inventor of the now 30-year-old bionic ear, in the ‘for we are young and free exhibition’. By Gabrielle Murphy.

Gus Nossal: a life in science

Volume 8 Number 9 September 3 - October 8 2012

Having celebrated his 80th birthday in June last year, Emeritus Professor Sir Gustav Nossal launched a new scholars program to encourage study at the Nossal Institute for Global Health.Professor Graham Brown, Director of the Nossal Institute, recently spoke with the former Australian of the Year and internationally renowned scientist.

Henry Atkinson: 100, not out

Volume 8 Number 9 September 3 - October 8 2012

Legendary dental educator Henry Forman Atkinson – still on staff one day a week at the University in an honorary capacity – celebrated his 100th birthday recently. By Annie Rahilly.