News: health and medical sciences
Highlighting the youth voice in wellbeing solutions
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have taken a closer look at what is important to Australia's young people in a new report.
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Improving the quality of life for men with breast cancer
Each year, 200 men or people assigned male at birth are diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia. With breast cancer often being considered solely a woman’s disease and no screening program in place, many men receive their cancer news while investigating unrelated conditions or after noticing a lump behind their nipple. University of Adelaide Medical School PhD candidate Dr Steve Kinsey-Trotman is researching how a breast cancer diagnosis impacts men’s quality of life.
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New funding to help understand early pregnancy loss
The University of Adelaide’s Professor Sarah Robertson has secured funding to take a closer look at how immune dysfunction can contribute to early pregnancy loss in Australian women.
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New investment targets better treatments for back pain
Australian MedTech company Evolution Surgical will invest $2 million over the next decade in partnership with the University of Adelaide to advance research into spinal conditions such as lower back pain, scoliosis, and degenerative cervical myelopathy – the most common non-traumatic spinal cord injury in older adults.
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Genetic study advances understanding of healthy ageing
New research from the University of Adelaide has explored the genomic links within the index used to measure healthy ageing — Intrinsic capacity (IC), paving the way for potential targeted interventions.
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Meningococcal leaves long term impact on adolescent survivors
New research from the University of Adelaide has found almost 60 per cent of adolescent invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) survivors have long term psychological conditions in subsequent years.
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Moisturisers tested to find best for scar management
Not all moisturisers are equal when it comes to scar management, according to new research by University of Adelaide experts and researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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Meningococcal B vaccine program holds strong five years on
Meningococcal B cases have dropped by more than 70 per cent in the five years since the South Australian Government introduced a publicly funded vaccination program, new data from the University of Adelaide has found.
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Not all artificial sweetener users are the same
Research into the impact of artificial or non-nutritive sweeteners (AS/NSS) often focuses on groups like those with diabetes or who are pregnant, but University of Adelaide researchers have released their findings from an under-studied group.
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Pre-established gender norms hinder migrant men's access to sexual and reproductive healthcare
Refugee and migrant men are bringing the cultural, gender and sexual norms from their countries of origin into their idea of sexual and reproductive healthcare in their countries of resettlement, researchers from the University of Adelaide have found.
