On 30th April 2010 The Hon Julia Gillard MP officially launched the new Australian Mesothelioma Registry which will be managed by a consortium led by the Cancer Institute NSW and including some o... more >
If there was ever doubt that one person can make a difference, it was all but gone by the end of Brain Cancer Action Week (BCAW) as Catherine Bullivant discovers.... more >
Tim Wilson, Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, shares his opinion on Australian patent law and its applicability to genetic technologies.... more >
A novel collaboration involving cancer services and brain injury researchers to better understand the cognitive and behavioural changes faced by brain tumour patients, has resulted in an innovati... more >
Professor Robert Sutherland has been awarded the prestigious Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher 2010.... more >
Having grown up in the USA, Nancy Spicer found both the man she was to marry and her chosen career path on a trip to Australia.... more >
Do high socio-economic status women really pseudo-screen?... more >
As a general practitioner, Professor Jane Young saw some interesting clinical cases that prompted her to pursue further academic training in research methods. A Master of Public Health kindled he... more >
2010 is potentially a watershed year in health service delivery in Australia. I say potentially because although there are many details available, many of the people that we serve through the Can... more >
The idea of a written, catalogued registry of man's afflictions in order to understand them better dates to at least the late 16th century. Fast forward four centuries and in 1972, cancer registr... more >
A self-confessed card-carrying vascular biologist, Professor Levon Khachigian has spent his working life studying how blood vessels - and the cells that run through them - control normal bodily f... more >
