Virus therapy to attack superbugs
Flinders University scientists are looking to bacteriophages – highly specific viruses – as the best way to attack antibiotic-resistant bacterial superbug infections.
Marine biotech looks to new frontiers
Demand for marine bioresources such as algae, sea cucumber, squid, chitin and collagen are growing for use in health foods, functional products, drugs and industrial biomaterials, a Flinders symposium has heard.
From Africa to India, babies hold key to better diet
Flinders is leading a global research effort to find a low-cost way to use a dietary technique to reduce infant mortality rates in low-income countries including Africa and India.
Marine biotech attracts Chinese alliance
A new research alliance at Flinders has attracting Chinese investment to the emerging field of high-value proteins and peptides produced from marine microalgae.
Insights to SA rural health for Harvard students
Two final-year students from Harvard Medical School in Boston have arrived at SA’s Riverland – and are enjoying their insights into the Australian rural health system.
Family doctors promote citizen health in Vietnam
Vietnam is joining other developing nations in building primary health care through family medicine to provide solutions to major health care challenges.
Checklist for safety in numbers
A simple checklist providing community safety advice for those attending major events and gatherings has been published by Flinders University’s Torrens Resilience Institute.
‘The New Public Health’ – as ‘gripping as a novel’ and relevant as ever
In spite of “challenging times for policy and practice that seeks to improve population health and reduce health inequalities”, Professor Fran Baum’s The New Public Health offers some optimism for the future, said Lancaster University’s Professor Jennie Popay today.
Traumatised refugees in desperate need of psychiatric support, says report
Almost half of the current flood of refugees arriving in Germany could be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to a paper co-authored by Flinders University Professor of Psychiatry, Julio Licinio.