'Clinicians Online' launch: a telehealth initiative

10/01/2013 'Clinicians Online' was recently launched, led by the Department of Health, Victoria and the Cystic Fibrosis service, headed by Professor John Wilson, at the Alfred and Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Monash. Prof Wilson drove the development of the research consortium and funding for the new service,

Lupus worse for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

23/12/2012, 14/12/2012 Dr Fabien Vincent, Department of Immunology, on a new study to find out why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer more frequently and severely from Lupus than non-Indigenous Australians. ABC Online www.abc.net.au/speakingout/stories/s3660250.htm; NITV Sydney, 774 ABC Melbourne, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association http://ahha.asn.au/news/indigenous-australians-vulnerable-lupus.

Advances in methods to study the brain

17/12/2012 Dr Kate Hoy, MAPrc, describes how methods used to study the brain have advanced.
The Conversation
http://theconversation.edu.au/explainer-the-brain-11196
For more information about MAPrc's research, see www.maprc.org.au

Monash vision project advances

12/12/2012 Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Department of Surgery - Alfred Hospital, discusses Monash Vision, which aims to give some sight back to blind individuals. For more about the project see http://www.monash.edu.au/bioniceye/technology.html 774 ABC Melbourne