For the first time, scientists have seen how the “front line troops” in the human body’s immune system work, debunking previous thinking on the topic and opening up new possibilities for treatment of auto-immune…
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Mobile phones are “possibly carcinogenic to humans”, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The IARC classified…
One of Australia’s top experts on cancer-causing agents has called for calm ahead of a report due to be released overnight that may help settle debate over whether or not mobile phone use is linked to…
Australia’s medical schools need a 50% increase in federal funding to boost the proportion of places available to domestic students and reduce their reliance on international fee-paying students, the peak…
Caffeine causes tiny muscles in the Fallopian tubes to slacken off, reducing their ability to help carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus, a U.S study has found. Eggs must make the journey down the tubes…
Red meats and processed meats like bacon, salami and sausage are strongly associated with bowel cancer, according to the most authoritative study ever on the issue. The report by the World Cancer Research…
Certain drugs that target sleep disorders can also act as very effective anti-depressants, paving the way for new approaches in the treatment of major depression, according to a new paper by Australian…
For the first time, scientists have made cells from healthy adult kidneys behave like stem cells, which can be used to grow any type of body tissue. Stem cell research has attracted controversy in the…
Genetic testing could help predict the likelihood of survival following chemotherapy for recently diagnosed breast cancer patients, a new study has found, but experts say the small sample size of the study…
One day in April, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research director Douglas Hilton called his communications manager, Penny Fannin, into his office. “He said he’d heard significant cuts were…