Health & Medicine

Centre for Music, Mind and Wellbeing

Volume 6 Number 7 July 12 - August 8 2010

Australian of the Year and Director of the Orygen Youth Mental Health Centre Professor Patrick McGorry, will launch the new Centre for Music, Mind and Wellbeing (CMMW) at the University of Melbourne this month. Katherine Smith reports.

Graduate Science Landmark

Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010

A Melbourne PhD stem cell research student is the first to come equipped with an Australian research qualification aligned to international standards. Sara Brocklesby reports.

Why worry?

Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010

Ignoring the symptoms of stress and anxiety can have serious consequences. Rebecca Scott looks at new research into the different ways people perceive and respond to these pressures.

Feeding Billions

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010


Food staples with low concentrations of micronutrients cause chronic nutritional problems for people in many areas of the world. Erin Wilson reports on research into the development of new cereal varieties which can provide essential micronutrients that are often lacking in human diets.

Lab-based nursing PhD – a Melbourne First

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Zoe Nikakis talks to Fiona Newall about combining clinical nursing work with laboratory-based research.

Life-saving drugs to the poor

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Every five months, the equivalent of Melbourne’s population dies because they do not have access to life-saving medicines. Professor Doris Schroeder, a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, considers possible solutions.

Changing role of doctors

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Geoff McColl (MB,BS, BMedSc, MEd, PhD, FRACP), Professor of Medical Education and Training and Director of the Medical Education Unit, reflects on the changing nature of our health system and the doctors of the future.

Cities fear-free, organic and symbiotic

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Three University of Melbourne projects from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning are among those set to showcase what they believe may point to the forms of future cities as part of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. By David Scott.

Reading recovery for deaf

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Deaf children tend to have lower levels of literacy than hearing children, despite a wide range of learning interventions in place in specialist schools and early learning centres, a disparity which tends to carry through to adulthood. Two initiatives from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education are now tackling the problem. Catriona May reports.

Live work and play

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

Work is crucial to our health and well being. Associate Professor Anthony D. LaMontagne looks at means of protecting us from its harmful effects and optimising work’s health-promoting aspects.

Our medical future

Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010

In a world of ever increasing computer capacity and population growth, a new realm of computational and mathematical methods is being applied to a range of societal issues as diverse as traffic management, flight simulation, drug development and health prevention. By Rebecca Scott.

Graduate path to Melbourne

Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010

As Medicine moves to graduate entry from 2011, Voice looks at the experiences of three recent Medicine, Physiotherapy and Dentistry graduates who earlier had earned degrees in another discipline. By Amy Little.