Research stories
Discover how our research impacts patient experience, health service delivery and the health of our nation.
29 Oct 2019
Researchers say mental health practitioners are wrongly diagnosing Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due...
31 Jul 2019
Treatment for a rare and currently incurable autoimmune disease has been given a major boost thanks to a $10 million bequest made to The Australian National...
19 Mar 2019
The Medical School is researching how to help a woman after the death of a baby.
13 Aug 2018
According to a study conducted by the ANU Medical School, this is the burden being placed on children in refugee families whose parents don’t speak English.
26 Jul 2018
“Being a generalist, I have to try and stay up to date with the acute treatment of nearly every medical subspecialty”
1 Jul 2018
While suffering can be severe across all diseases, access to care is uneven.
15 May 2018
Can a good night’s sleep improve your health? PhD student, Lori Delaney is trying to find out.
18 Apr 2018
“We want to give GPs the tools to assist their patients.”
3 Nov 2017
A research project, which aims to revolutionise personalised medicine through wearable sensor technologies such as bracelets, will receive up to $10 million as...
30 Oct 2017
The proportion of ‘staph’ infections resistant to antibiotics has increased in Australia since 2000 with most cases now occurring in the community rather than...
17 Aug 2017
Professor Dahlstrom, the new Interim Dean of the ANU College of Health and Medicine, is an anatomical pathologist working at the Canberra Hospital.
4 May 2017
The multidisciplinary LOOK study has developed into one of Australia’s richest data sets for health researchers at ANU, University of Canberra and interstate.