Tue Dec 7, 2010
UK researchers have shown that aspirin reduces death rates from a range of common cancers. The researchers studied deaths due to all cancers during and after randomised trials of daily aspirin versus control and showed that allocation to aspirin reduced death due to cancer by 21% during the trials. Australian experts respond to these findings.
Wed Oct 20, 2010
EMBARGO lifted at 7am AEDT on Wednesday 20 October 2010 Research led by The University of Adelaide challenges advice that pregnant women increase their intake of fish oil. The study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that consumption of fish oil during pregnancy did not decrease post-natal depression or [...]
Wed Oct 6, 2010
Embargo lifted 10.01am AEDT Wednesday 6 October UK research has found light drinking during pregnancy does not harm a young child’s behavioral or intellectual development. The study found children born to light drinkers were less likely to have behavioural problems than children whose mothers did not drink during pregnancy, but this effect was reduced after [...]
Fri Sep 24, 2010
Overnight the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the suspension of the marketing authorisations for the anti-diabetes medicine Avandia (Rosiglitazone). These medicines will stop being available in Europe within the next few months.
Fri Jan 15, 2010
New Australian research shows that exposure of a fetus to alcohol during the first half of pregnancy results in changes to the expression of genes as adults, according to a new mouse model study.
Fri Sep 11, 2009
Preliminary results from the first study of CSL’s pandemic H1N1 vaccine show an immune response in adults that correlates with the prevention of influenza infection following a single 15mcg dose.
Tue Sep 1, 2009
The Federal Government has today released the first ever National Preventative Health Strategy – essentially three strategies at once that aim to reduce the huge real and potential burden of disease due to obesity, tobacco and the harmful use of alcohol.
Thu Aug 27, 2009
Embargo lifted at 3am AEST Thursday 27 August 2009 A new technique has been developed to treat mitochondrial diseases by replacing the defective mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from an egg with healthy mtDNA from a donor.