(Formerly known as Central Clinical School)
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| L-R: Prof David Tarlinton, Head of Department, Prof Robyn O'Hehir AO, Mr Rory Doolan, prize winner, and Prof Nicola Harris. |
Rory’s thesis was ‘Investigating the response of airway epithelial cells to damage - Use of the Helminth model of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.’ Rory was supervised by Professor Nicola Harris, Dr Tiffany Smith and Dr Gillian Coakley.
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| Neuroscience researchers have found a strong relationship between patient-reported adverse events (AE) and psychiatric symptomatology: Study. Those with PNES paradoxically report greater physical AEs despite receiving fewer anti-epileptic drugs. Patients who report AEs in clinical practice should be screened for comorbid depression or anxiety and treated accordingly. |
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| The CCS GEDI International Women's Day panellists. L-R above: Profs Christina Mitchell, Terry O'Brien, Jayashri Kulkarni. L-R below: Drs Vilija Jokubaitis, Danika Hill, A/Prof Caroline Gurvich. |
By Zhoujie Ding, Alexandra Dimitropoulos, and Jessica Borger*
The campaign for International Women’s Day was first observed globally in 1911. Women’s rights have certainly improved 110 years later, but are still far from being equitable in both the home and within the workplace.
The Central Clinical School's Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) committee’s first event of 2021, celebrating International Women’s Day, focussed on gender inequity in academic career development.
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| Can a diet rich in food containing prebiotic fibre lead to a reduction in the risk of developing diabetes complications in individuals with type 2 diabetes? Diabetes researchers Melinda Coughlan and Matt Snelson are teasing out more detail: Study They have also published a study on the effect on mice of a high protein diet: it caused inflammation, potentially damaging the kidneys. |
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| Participants sought for attitudes to PrEP use |
How PrEPared are you? Overseas born gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and their attitudes toward PrEP and PrEP use in Australia are invited to participate in a study on HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as reported by newly arrived (have been in Australian for less than 5 years) gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).
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| Georgia Symons (left) and Will O'Brien (right) are CCS PhD students in the Monash Trauma Group and both are first authors on papers investigating concussion in sport. See respectively Symons et al. paper; O'Brien et al. paper |
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| Diabetes and a high fat diet age you faster: how to slow it down? CCS Diabetes researchers explain mechanisms in a book chapter |
