Funding boost for big Ideas
A fresh approach to improve COVID-19 and other lung disease treatment, innovative research on rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer therapy are three areas of Flinders University research […]
New insights to childhood dementia
Is the eye a window to the brain in Sanfilippo syndrome, an untreatable form of childhood-onset dementia, Australian researchers ask in a new publication. The findings […]
Home-based care for people living with dementia
With alternatives to residential aged care in high demand, a new program focused on supporting people with dementia and their carers to live well at home […]
Giant spider promises IBS relief
Molecules from the venom of one of the world’s largest spiders are helping researchers tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Researchers screened […]
Blood marker may reduce cancer burden
Researchers at Flinders University are expanding work on a promising blood test model to help predict or diagnose head and neck cancer, a difficult cancer to […]
New push targets deadly brain cancer
Finding treatment targets for deadly cancers such as glioblastoma – a type of brain cancer which kills more people under the age of 40 than any […]
Burns units need to cater for Indigenous kids
Aboriginal liaison workers in burn units, and greater cultural competence by clinicians in health services, are urgently needed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander burns patients […]
Solutions for combined sleep woes
A new study shows treating insomnia first can lead to 50% better outcomes for people suffering with concurrent insomnia and sleep apnoea. The ‘double whammy’ of […]
Grants to aid new frontiers of medicine
Much-needed solutions to chronic pain, bowel cancer, drug delivery and improved childhood vaccinations are a step closer to reality thanks to newly funded Flinders University research. […]