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Mosquitoes carrying anti-viral bacteria have dramatically reduced the spread of dengue fever in Australia due to research carried out by a team led by Dr Perran Ross at the University of Melbourne.  Researchers spent a decade studying the Wolbachia bacterium that ...

Third-year nursing student Shamsiya Hassam Mooradun recently attended a virtual Public Health Study Tour (PHST) program about Indonesia’s public health sector to aid in the development of her nursing career. The two-week intensive program is intended to equip students with ...

With 170,000 Australians breaking a bone annually, University of Southern Queensland PhD student Janitha Jeewantha thought it was time to redesign the old way of casting injuries. With help from his professor, Jeewantha developed a hybrid shape memory polymer 'smart ...

Some emergency department nurses are suffering with PTSD after routinely experiencing high levels of verbal and physical violence, according to a James Cook University survey. Fourteen nurses at a major rural hospital in NSW told the researchers that they expect ...

A decrease in negative blood types in Australia may change how emergency blood transfusions are performed in the future, experts have said. In the first major blood group assessment done since the early ’90s, scientists from the Australian Red Cross ...