News: health and medical sciences
Healthy contributions by University leaders recognised
The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) has announced the election of 29 new Fellows for 2025, including two leaders from the University of Adelaide.
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Trial to improve comfort for lower-limb amputees
An ill-fitting lower-limb prosthesis can significantly impact an amputee’s mobility, independence, and overall quality of life, and a new research initiative from the University of Adelaide is aiming to revolutionise socket design to better meet the needs of people living with limb loss.
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Grants to improve cardiovascular outcomes
University of Adelaide leaders in heart health have received extra support for their research from the Heart Foundation through its annual funding round.
Viertel Fellowship for innovative cancer epigentic leader
University of Adelaide cancer epigenetics and 3D genome biology expert Dr Joanna Achinger-Kawecka has been awarded a 2025 Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship.
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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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