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Loose joints; safe water; the limits of executive power – 2013 Menzies scholars
Sir Robert Menzies’ legacy continues
Scholarships announced today to young leaders in physiotherapy, engineering, and the law in Sydney and Melbourne.
The treatment of “loose joints”, or hypermobility, a painful inherited condition particularly of adolescent girls; the provision of safe and adequate water resources to communities in Australia and the developing world; and examining the possibilities and limits of executive power—these are just some of the issues being tackled by this year’s crop of Menzies scholars. [Read more…] about Loose joints; safe water; the limits of executive power – 2013 Menzies scholars
Volunteers continue search for father and son pilots missing in Mozambique
South African pilots Bryan and Robert Simms have been missing since 28 October, when the light aircraft they were ferrying had to make an emergency landing in Mozambique and disappeared.
Their family have filed a missing persons report and believe that the missing pilots made an emergency landing in or near the Gorongosa National Park. A reward has also been offered to locals who can identify the location of the plane. [Read more…] about Volunteers continue search for father and son pilots missing in Mozambique
1000 GPs adopt new way to manage chronic disease
- Over 10,000 chronically ill Australians using new chronic disease management system
- Trials showing significant improvement in quality of care and effectiveness
- Practice incomes increased by more than $35,000 per GP
- Keeping people with diabetes, asthma and arthritis out of hospital;
- Reducing Australia’s $60 billion chronic care costs.
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The good, the bad and chronic hepatitis
Today is World Hepatitis Day and it brings good news and bad news.
The bad news is that hepatitis is still a serious condition which affects nearly 400,000 Australians putting them on a course to serious liver disease.
“The good news is that treatment is now less invasive, of shorter duration, much more effective—and diagnosis doesn’t involve humongous needles,” says Dr Nick Shackel from the Centenary Institute.
Higgs boson puts Melbourne in international spotlight
Issued on behalf of MCVB
The recent, ground-breaking Higgs boson discovery announced in Melbourne at the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), has shed positive light on the city’s flourishing business events industry.
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Building CERN’s LHC out of Lego at Scienceworks
At Scienceworks this weekend parents and kids are building a Lego model of a piece of the Large Hadron Collider – that’s CERN’s 27km long particle accelerator buried underneath the French-Swiss border which is looking for the Higgs boson, aka the “God particle”
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Future hepatitis cure rates expected to soar
After “astonishing” preliminary results from new drugs
As the burden of Hepatitis C (HCV) associated liver failure and liver cancer rises in our community so hepatitis C therapy is undergoing radical and rapid change, says Centenary’s Prof Geoff McCaughan. [Read more…] about Future hepatitis cure rates expected to soar
$2 billion telescope good for Africa, Australia and the world
Looking for life, dark energy and the beginning of time
Southern Africa, Australia and NZ are to share the Square Kilometre Array – a giant radio telescope that will consist of thousands of separate radio dishes and other antennae spread across an area the size of a continent.
We’ve pulled together links to our stories and to other sites about SKA. Feel free to use our stories as raw material for your own accounts. [Read more…] about $2 billion telescope good for Africa, Australia and the world
Looking for life, dark energy and the beginning of time
Australian physicists welcome $2 billion win for science
Southern Africa, Australia and NZ are to share the Square Kilometre Array – a giant radio telescope that will consist of thousands of separate radio dishes and other antennae spread across an area the size of a continent.
Australian Institute of Physics President, Dr Marc Duldig, today welcomed the decision to share the SKA telescope between the competing bids. [Read more…] about Looking for life, dark energy and the beginning of time