Social media puts body-conscious girls off sport
Teenage girls are shying away from sports in high school because social media is making them self-conscious about their bodies, Flinders University research shows.
All eyes on Flinders Vision Clinic
Staff and industry stakeholders have gathered at the Flinders Vision Clinic on Wednesday (October 1) to celebrate the official launch of the new eye care centre.
Flinders on new journey with Maggie Beer Foundation
A new partnership between Flinders University’s Discipline of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Maggie Beer Foundation to improve nutrition in Australia’s aged care facilities is officially underway.
Focus on hospitals at Flinders-Nankai conference
The analytics used to improve assembly lines may seem worlds apart from hospital beds, but the skills of engineers offer real opportunities to improve hospital flow and reduce waiting times.
Harnessing China’s people power for research
About 600 to 700 operations for oesophageal cancer are performed in Australia each year. In China, 1,200 cases are treated in just one hospital per annum.
Award winning student reveals family inspiration
“My uncle had a stroke and lost his speech. I realise now, with the training I’ve received at Flinders, that I would have been able to help him.”
Aussies’ take on alcohol warning labels
Like a book cover, the purpose of a wine label is to attract the buyer’s attention and say something about the characters within the contents.
Flinders researchers find new marker for glaucoma
A person’s chance of developing glaucoma – the leading cause of blindness worldwide – could now be easier to predict following the discovery of new disease-related genes by Flinders researchers.
Flinders aims to SHAPE future of SA sport
Some of South Australia’s top sporting figures will make presentations at a symposium to launch Flinders University’s new Sport, Health and Physical Education Research (SHAPE) Centre today.