EXPERT 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: 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: 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: 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 ArticleBACKGROUND 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 ArticleNEWS 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 ArticleNEWS 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 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 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: 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...
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