EXPERT REACTION: Gene-edited cell therapy saves baby girl from leukaemia
A baby girl in the UK has been cleared of leukaemia following compassionate treatment with an experimental therapy which used gene-edited cells. It is the first time a therapy using the gene-editing...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Low fat diets no magic bullet…but still better than nothing...
Low-fat diets don’t work any better than other diets of similar intensity, according to a large meta-analysis involving more than 68,000 adults. However the low fat diet was still better than no diet...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Red meat linked to cancer – WHO report
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has evaluated the links between the consumption of red and processed meat, and cancer. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEWS BRIEFING: Industrial waste and orange peel can safely scrub the oceans...
NEWS BRIEFING – Monday 19 October at 11:00 AEDT Online Mercury contamination plagues many areas of the world, affecting both food and water supplies, and now researchers at Flinders University have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEWS BRIEFING: The highs and lows of Aussie drug use: ice splits drug-taking...
EMBARGO LIFTED 00.01 AEDT Wed Oct 14 2015 NEWS BRIEFING – Tue Oct 13 at 10:30 AEDT Online UNSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) is releasing two annual reports on drug use among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: Chronic pain – the hidden health crisis
Low back pain is now the leading cause of disability in Australia. It is the second biggest cause of total disease burden, outstripping asthma, stroke and even lung cancer. And if you live in rural and...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Victoria set to legalise medical marijuana
In an Australian first, the Victorian Government announced yesterday it would legalise marijuana for the treatment of medical conditions including cancer, chronic pain and epilepsy. The decision is...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: High Court rules breast cancer genes can’t be patented
The High Court of Australia has handed down its decision in the D’arcy V Myriad Genetics Inc & Anor case, ruling that the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 was not a “patentable invention”. The ruling...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Gene-edited micropigs to be sold as pets
For immediate release A research institution in China is going to sell gene-edited micropigs as pets, according to Nature News. The pigs were originally developed as models for human disease....
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Poor access to radiotherapy for cancer (The Lancet Oncology)*
Millions of people are dying from potentially treatable cancers like breast and prostate because of a chronic underinvestment in radiotherapy resources, according to a major new Commission on global...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Summit kicks off in New York at 1AM AEST tomorrow morning where world leaders are expected to agree to the latest Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millennium...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFING: Australian wins Ig Nobel Prize for the ‘unboil an egg machine’
Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University has won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of a machine, the Vortex Fluidic Device, that can at least partially ‘unboil’ an egg. The...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Global links between air pollution and early deaths (Nature)*
Air pollution leads to over 3 million people dying prematurely every year, a number that’s expected to double by 2050, according to a new global study. The researchers combined atmospheric chemistry,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEWS BRIEFING: Latest Kirby Institute stats – STIs still rising, but there’s...
EMBARGO LIFTED 01.00 AEST MON SEP 14 The latest stats from the UNSW Kirby Institute’s annual surveillance report once again paint a mixed picture of Australians’ sexual health. The report, which is one...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Can you ‘catch’ Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections?...
EMBARGO LIFTED at 03:00 AEST THU 10 SEP 2015 Brain damage found in autopsies of six out of eight patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) – the condition associated with eating ‘mad cow disease’...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Radiation therapy may undermine cancer treatment by...
EMBARGOED LIFTED 01:00 AEST Tue 8 Sep 2015 In a strange paradox, radiation therapy used to treat skin cancer could actually make the situation worse by depressing the body’s immune system directly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEWS BRIEFING: The last five years of assisted reproduction in Australia
EMBARGO LIFTED 01:01 AEST Friday Sep 11 The Assisted Reproductive Technology in Australia and New Zealand 2013 report, by UNSW’s National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU), is due out...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Vaccine for broad protection against influenza (Nature...
The development of a universal flu vaccine that is effective against a range of influenza viruses may be a step closer after US and Japanese researchers developed a nanoparticle vaccine that targets a...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Government rejects adding Meningococcal B vaccine to PBS
Parents will face a $500 bill to vaccinate their child against meningococcal B after the government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) again rejected subsidising the vaccine on the...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Working long hours linked to higher risk of stroke (The...
Working 55 hours or more per-week is linked to a 33 per cent greater risk of stroke and a more modest 13 per cent increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, compared with working a standard...
View Article
/pic9814888.png)
/fit-in/580x348/filters:format(webp)/english-betterindia/media/media_files/2026/09/17/balaghat-3-2026-09-17-18-46-40.png)
