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Our knowledge of the human body, which is mostly inferred from what is observed in males, may not always hold true for females.
More funding is needed to galvanise
Nigeria’s health system as medical research is not well funded.
Discovery of a new antibiotic compound from a Nigerian environment is good news for researchers in this field.
How investigation into long COVID will help us create treatments.
I was motivated to improve the outcome for women with ovarian cancer by my experience as a junior doctor in London in 1985. But 36 years on, the results aren’t what we’d hoped.
The lack of recognition of sex differences in biology and medicine is a huge issue science has only recently begun to rectify.
Canada has produced Nobel Prize winners in the arts and sciences. With several recent awards, Canadian talent still has the potential for future achievements.
While COVID-19 has highlighted the invaluable nature of medical research, it has unfortunately also seriously disrupted it. In Australia, the sector now teeters on the brink of collapse.
Face masks work well to stop the spread of diseases like coronavirus in the lab, but in the real world they seem to be less effective.
No-one wants our children to be used as research guinea pigs. High standards of ethical oversight are needed to ensure no child is exposed to possible harm.
Many published studies fail to fully and accurately report how the study was conducted and what was found.
The Lancet launched an independent investigation but ran into resistance from the institution, which refused to disclose the raw data, forcing the journal to retract the article.
The only way to know if a medical treatment actually works is with a randomized-controlled trial.
Previous and current research on coronaviruses helps inform the response to the current pandemic, but funding cuts could threaten these programs.
We found that one of the most widely used tests does not come up to scratch.
World Down Syndrome Day is marked on March 21 annually. Canadian scientists have helped improve the quality of life of those affected.
Babies in Australia have been vaccinated against hepatitis B since May 2000, but 240,000 Australians still live with the disease.
Wondering if that latest study finding is too good to be true, or whether it’s as bad as we’re told? Here are five questions to ask to help you assess the evidence.
Most medical research is funded by industry, not public sources. And industry puts pressure on researchers in many ways, from guiding the research question to suppressing unfavourable findings.
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Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute & Professor of Medical Biology, and an honorary principal fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Professionalism, University of Adelaide
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Geneticist and Group Leader, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Secretary-General, International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation; Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Monash University
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Visiting Professor UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Chancellor, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
