Mon Apr 23, 2012
Embargo lifted at 9.01am AEST Wed 25 April 2012 NEWS BRIEFING: The dangers of youth – a Lancet series on adolescent health ONLINE BRIEFING – Tue 24 April at 9.30am AEST There are around 4.8 million adolescents (those aged 10-24 years) in Australia today, comprising around a fifth of our total population. However, new research [...]
Fri Mar 9, 2012
Embargo lifted 11am AEDT March 9, 2012 Swedish and American authors say a new technique involving the use of an artificial scaffold into which a patient’s own stem cells are inserted, turning it into a fully functional organ, could offer a potential solution to the donor shortage crisis. The review article is one of two [...]
Thu Mar 1, 2012
Dutch researchers have trialled the first web-based therapeutic programme for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with positive results. The study, Fatigue In Teenagers on the interNET (FITNET)*, included 135 teenagers aged between 12-18 years with chronic fatigue syndrome and showed that using a web-based cognitive behavioural therapy programme is substantially more effective than usual [...]
Tue Aug 16, 2011
Two sets of research in the same field are being published on August 16. An Australian paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reports that six hours of sedentary behaviour per day could shorten life expectancy by five years. Meanwhile, a paper in The Lancet by Taiwanese and US authors suggests that 15 minutes [...]
Fri May 20, 2011
A man, completely paralysed below the chest in a road accident in 2006, is now able to stand for several minutes and, with support, take repeated steps on a treadmill and voluntarily move his hips, knees, ankles and toes. The man’s treatment involved epidural spinal cord stimulation and repeated motion training. The research* was published [...]
Wed Feb 3, 2010
The Lancet has formally retracted the paper in which Andrew Wakefield claimed that the MMR vaccine can be linked to autism – here are some comments from UK and New Zealand based experts, compliments of our colleagues at the UK and NZ Science Media Centres.
Fri Sep 19, 2008
Global embargo lifted at 9am AEST Friday 19 September 2008 Giving children paracetamol during their first year of life can increase their risk of developing asthma according to new research to be published in Lancet. Currently over 2.2 million Australians have asthma and the incidence has been increasing over the last 50 years but we [...]
Fri Jul 25, 2008
Embargo lifted at 10am AEST on Friday 25 July Earlier this year, a controversial report from the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS claimed that HIV patients who take effective antiretroviral treatment cannot pass on the virus through unprotected sex. But Australian research published in this week’s issue of The Lancet warns that HIV infection could [...]