Leading healthy lives

I can’t afford olive oil. What else can I use?

uqccla15 — Thu, 23 May 2024 01:06:15 +0000

23 May 2024During a cost-of-living crisis, high prices can put items such as olive oil out of reach. What's the healthy alternative?

Social understanding

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:15:32 +0000

26 April 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa has a vision: native food telling the story of Australia's Indigenous culture at the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Environment

Impact

Leading healthy lives

Transforming societies

Will independent doctors at games help the AFL’s concussion problem?

uqccla15 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:43:27 +0000

8 April 2024The AFL recently announced it is considering appointing independent doctors at all games to assist club medical staff in identifying and assessing players for potential head injuries. What does it mean for the game?

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

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Running or yoga can help beat depression, research shows

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:00:33 +0000

1 March 2024Even if exercise is the last thing you feel like, it can be just as impactful at treating depression as therapy, new research has found.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

5 dental TikTok trends you shouldn't try at home

uqccla15 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:40:35 +0000

18 January 2024Here are 5 popular dental TikTok trends that are circulating at the home, and why you might treat them with caution.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Thinking of a(nother) tattoo this summer?

uqccla15 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:53:20 +0000

4 January 2024Here's everything you need to know about your tattoo's sunburn, sweating and fading.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

The sobering facts about alcohol

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:16:09 +0000

20 December 2023Ever wondered how accurate hangover cures are? And is there really such a thing as ‘healthy drinking’?

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

PM awards innovation prize to ��̽�� venom researcher

uqccla15 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:05:23 +0000

17 October 2023When Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation recipient Professor Glenn King wanted to develop bee-friendly insecticides, he sought help from unexpected allies. This is his story.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Environment

Leading healthy lives

After school care needs to be more than a babysitting service

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:28:29 +0000

22 September 2023New research shows how designing activities with children and their communities can help improve the quality of these services.

Business transformation

Leading healthy lives

Transforming societies

How noisy offices can make us more territorial

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:46:27 +0000

20 September 2023From colleagues chatting about their weekends or having intense phone conversations, to email alerts and loud tapping on keyboards, the evidence that open-plan offices take a toll on our wellbeing continues to mount.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Transforming societies

1 in 6 women are diagnosed with gestational diabetes

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:40:52 +0000

8 September 2023When Sophie was pregnant with her first baby, she had an oral glucose tolerance blood test. A few days later, the hospital phoned telling her she had gestational diabetes.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Does it matter what time of day I eat?

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:34:20 +0000

1 September 2023Can intermittent fasting improve my health? Here’s what the science says.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

The future of telehealth

uqccla15 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 01:45:53 +0000

11 September 2023Health consumers are inviting ��̽�� researchers to their tables to work out how to improve telehealth.

Business transformation

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Nine signs you have inflammation in your body

uqccla15 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:59:32 +0000

24 August 2023Could an anti-inflammatory diet help with your aches, pains and other symptoms?

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

World’s first case of dementia linked to repetitive brain trauma in female athlete

uqccla15 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:35:57 +0000

5 July 2023Researchers at the Australian Sports Brain Bank have reported the world’s first diagnosis of CTE in a female athlete.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

From the NBA to FNQ: bringing sports science on Country

uqccla15 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:40:53 +0000

15 June 2023Yarrabah in Far North Queensland is a long way from the packed stadiums of the NBA. But First Nations sport scientist Emily Hall is comfortable putting a sneaker clad foot in both camps.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Transforming societies

COVID-19 can cause brain cells to 'fuse'

uqccla15 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:33:34 +0000

19 June 2023Professor Massimo Hilliard and Dr Ramon Martinez-Marmol from the Queensland Brain Institute have explored how viruses alter the function of the nervous system.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Like father, like son

uqccla15 — Wed, 17 May 2023 22:57:28 +0000

15 May 2023New research shows how young men 'copy' their fathers' masculinity.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

What to eat when you have COVID

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:25:14 +0000

27 April 2023Deciding what to eat can be mentally taxing, especially when you are not feeling well. However, our diet plays a role in preventing and managing poor health, including COVID.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

3 reasons you feel hungrier and crave foods when the weather's cold

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 02:01:32 +0000

7 April 2023Parts of Australia are starting to see cooler weather, and for some of us, that means increasing feelings of hunger and cravings for 'comfort food'. But why?

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Dirty air diminishes both body and brain

uqnross4 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:04:38 +0000

14 April 2023We all know that polluted air can make it harder to breathe, but did you know that it also makes it harder to think? Even work?

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Learning to speak again

uqccla15 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:35:55 +0000

30 March 2023See how the award-winning team at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre is helping people speak to their loved ones again.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

When it’s no longer safe to drive

uqccla15 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:43:44 +0000

24 March 2023Many older people fear losing their driver’s licence and what it may mean for their independence, but ��̽�� researchers hope a new fitness-to-drive assessment test will help end the confusion.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Urgent call to action on Qld skin cancer rates

uqccla15 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:22:33 +0000

27 January 2023Queenslanders are being challenged to slash the state’s skin cancer numbers by a quarter over the next 3 decades with a new report showing we’ve dropped the ball on prevention of the deadly disease.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

The sleep whisperer

uqccla15 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:32:42 +0000

18 January 2023As a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Specialist with the Queensland Children’s Hospital, Dr Jasneek Chawla explores new treatments for children with neurodisabilities.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Reduce stress to avoid long COVID

uqccla15 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:07:07 +0000

18 November 2022Being stressed out before you get COVID increases your chances of long COVID. Here’s why.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Stopping Alzheimer's in its tracks

uqccla15 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:24:47 +0000

20 October 2022Researchers at ��̽��’s Queensland Brain Institute have been studying ‘roadblocks’ in the brain and believe they are now on track to eliminating them – and possibly Alzheimer’s disease itself.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Refugees and migrants often excluded from mainstream DV services

uqccla15 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:16:41 +0000

3 August 2022Migrant and refugee women are treated differently by domestic violence support services and policy makers, new research has found. Read why.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

How to subdue the Sunday scaries

uqccla15 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:54:41 +0000

28 July 2022Six ways staff and leaders can conquer returning-to-work anxiety after a weekend or holiday.

Business transformation

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Sore throats suck. Do throat lozenges help at all?

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:33:09 +0000

19 July 2022The most common treatment is probably throat lozenges – but do they really work any better than sucking on a hard lolly? Dr David King explains.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

What’s it like being bitten by a venomous snake?

uqccla15 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 04:35:31 +0000

14 July 2022Dr Christina Zdenek and her husband Chris Hay share a rare bond – they have both been bitten by two of the world’s deadliest snakes. Read what it’s like as the panic sets in and the venom begins to take over your whole body.

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

��̽�� explores health partnerships with Torres Strait Islands

uqccla15 — Mon, 30 May 2022 22:28:09 +0000

31 May 2022This Reconciliation Week, Research News takes a look at one of the amazing health initiatives being undertaken in the most northern part of Queensland. Check out the incredible photos of life in the Torres Strait Islands, and the challenges faced by its residents every day.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Does toxic masculinity explain why men kill women? Perhaps not as much as we thought

uqccla15 — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 04:47:32 +0000

29 April 2022Honorary Associate Professor Dr Samara McPhedran takes a look at the data behind Australia's domestic violence murder to uncover a series of unique trends.

Leading healthy lives

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer genetically tied

uqccla15 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:52:20 +0000

7 April 2022Researchers have found a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer subtypes. Dr Sally Mortlock explains.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

WATCH: Human behaviour shapes our DNA and descendants

uqccla15 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:03:41 +0000

29 March 2022Our choice of partner can have a direct effect on the genomes of our descendants, an Institute for Molecular Bioscience researcher has found. Learn how.

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Bugs in floods - the microbes lurking in mud

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:23:13 +0000

28 March 2022While rising floodwaters pose an immediate danger to human life, disease-causing microbes lurking in those same waters can cause infection and illness well after the waters have peaked and clean-up continues.

Energy, water and resources

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

WATCH: What drives the down syndrome condition?

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:47:19 +0000

1 April 2022Tiny ‘live’ brain models are being used at The University of Queensland to study a condition causing high-functioning young people with down syndrome to suddenly regress. See how it works.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

COVID-19 Q&A: IMB's virologist answers your questions

uqccla15 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 01:29:05 +0000

4 March 2022IMB virologist Dr Larisa Labzin answers questions about "long COVID" and whether scientists could eventually develop a vaccine against all COVID-19 variants.

COVID-19

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

WATCH: Natural mineral may reverse memory loss

uqccla15 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:12:43 +0000

21 February 2022Selenium – a mineral found in many foods – could reverse the cognitive impact of stroke and boost learning and memory in ageing brains, according to Queensland Brain Institute researchers.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

WATCH: Vitamin D not effective in treating psychosis

uqccla15 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:53:26 +0000

28 December 2021Vitamin D supplements are not effective in improving mental or physical health in people with recent onset psychosis, according to new research.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Dietary diversity to promote ‘‘good bugs’’ in the gut

uqccla15 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:44:26 +0000

28 January 2022Caring for our guts, or digestive system, by enhancing the growth of “good bugs” is an important focus for health, ��̽�� research has found.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

WATCH: Our world-first lung cancer screening facility

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:44:22 +0000

1 December 2021A semi-trailer will be converted into the world’s first mobile lung cancer screening facility to help boost early detection and increase survival rates in rural and remote Queensland where access to specialists is limited.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

A vision of Indigenous health and wellbeing

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:06:38 +0000

10 January 2022Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Read how an Indigenous ��̽�� professor aims to change this.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

WATCH: What is it about the COVID virus that causes a high risk of blood clots?

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:33:59 +0000

4 November 2021The SARS-CoV-2 virus does not infect blood vessels, despite the high risk of blood clots to COVID-19 patients, University of Queensland researchers have found.

COVID-19

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Achieving Aboriginal health equity through surveillance and support

uqccla15 — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:13:25 +0000

26 October 2021It’s one of the largest surveillance networks of First Nations health services globally. Read about this incredible ��̽�� project.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Social understanding

New app to motivate aphasia recovery

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:25:07 +0000

5 October 2021A smartphone app to track and improve communication recovery for stroke survivors with aphasia is under development by University of Queensland researchers.

Digital technology

Leading healthy lives

Prostate cancer: Not so secret men's business

uqccla15 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:15:49 +0000

17 September 2021At The University of Queensland, several esteemed researchers, doctors and scientists are working on different projects to help mitigate the problem.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

How women can get a better night's sleep

uqrwestb — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 04:50:49 +0000

10 September 2021In celebration of Women’s Health Week from 6–10 September, sleep expert at ��̽��'s Institute for Social Science Research Dr Cassandra Pattinson shares her top tips for how women can support their circadian rhythms to achieve better sleep.

Leading healthy lives

New brain research offers hope for PTSD, anxiety and depression

uqccla15 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:15:50 +0000

10 September 2021Professor Pankaj Sah's laboratory uses a combination of electrophysiology, imaging and cutting-edge molecular tools to unravel the impact fear can have on the brain.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Pain out of paradise: the tropical snails revolutionising chronic pain

uqccla15 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:54:44 +0000

23 August 2021Chronic pain is a life-altering condition that affects one in five Australians, but the answer to this devastating condition could come from an animal with a deadly sting.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Queensland’s own gympietides hold hope for new painkillers

uqccla15 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:49:07 +0000

23 August 2021The Gympie Gympie tree, native to Queensland and northern NSW, has become much more than just a bushwalker’s menace.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Tackling concussion head-on

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:39:22 +0000

19 August 2021Athletes are helping a neuroscientist from QBI tackle the problem of concussion in sport head-on with the aim of developing a quick and cheap test measuring brain recovery.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Leading healthy lives

Getting to the heart of the matter: why rural and remote health research has value

uqccla15 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:41:34 +0000

10 August 2021��̽�� health economists have partnered with a rural health and medical research network to shine a light on the value of rural health research.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

A sustainable approach to hotel happiness

uqccla15 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:37:50 +0000

9 August 2021From eco-tourism hotels in Slovenia to luxury chains in Australia, a ��̽�� Business School researcher is working with operators to change the way tourism tackles sustainability, while making it fun for guests.

Building better bioeconomies

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

The digital health generation

uqccla15 — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:24:15 +0000

6 August 2021��̽�� Business School researchers are working with Queensland Health and the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre to help digitalise and transform healthcare delivery in Queensland.

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Transforming societies

Repairing hearts with deadly spider venom

uqccla15 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:09:09 +0000

16 July 2021A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attack victims has been discovered from a very unlikely source – the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Leading healthy lives

Leading healthy lives

I can’t afford olive oil. What else can I use?

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

Will independent doctors at games help the AFL’s concussion problem?

Running or yoga can help beat depression, research shows

5 dental TikTok trends you shouldn't try at home

Thinking of a(nother) tattoo this summer?

The sobering facts about alcohol

PM awards innovation prize to ����̽�� venom researcher

After school care needs to be more than a babysitting service

How noisy offices can make us more territorial

1 in 6 women are diagnosed with gestational diabetes

Does it matter what time of day I eat?

The future of telehealth

Nine signs you have inflammation in your body

World’s first case of dementia linked to repetitive brain trauma in female athlete

From the NBA to FNQ: bringing sports science on Country

COVID-19 can cause brain cells to 'fuse'

Like father, like son

What to eat when you have COVID

3 reasons you feel hungrier and crave foods when the weather's cold

Dirty air diminishes both body and brain

Learning to speak again

When it’s no longer safe to drive

Urgent call to action on Qld skin cancer rates

The sleep whisperer

Reduce stress to avoid long COVID

Stopping Alzheimer's in its tracks

Refugees and migrants often excluded from mainstream DV services

How to subdue the Sunday scaries

Sore throats suck. Do throat lozenges help at all?

What’s it like being bitten by a venomous snake?

����̽�� explores health partnerships with Torres Strait Islands

Does toxic masculinity explain why men kill women? Perhaps not as much as we thought

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer genetically tied

WATCH: Human behaviour shapes our DNA and descendants

Bugs in floods - the microbes lurking in mud

WATCH: What drives the down syndrome condition?

COVID-19 Q&A: IMB's virologist answers your questions

WATCH: Natural mineral may reverse memory loss

WATCH: Vitamin D not effective in treating psychosis

Dietary diversity to promote ‘‘good bugs’’ in the gut

WATCH: Our world-first lung cancer screening facility

A vision of Indigenous health and wellbeing

WATCH: What is it about the COVID virus that causes a high risk of blood clots?

Achieving Aboriginal health equity through surveillance and support

New app to motivate aphasia recovery

Prostate cancer: Not so secret men's business

How women can get a better night's sleep

New brain research offers hope for PTSD, anxiety and depression

Pain out of paradise: the tropical snails revolutionising chronic pain

Queensland’s own gympietides hold hope for new painkillers

Tackling concussion head-on

Getting to the heart of the matter: why rural and remote health research has value

A sustainable approach to hotel happiness

The digital health generation

Repairing hearts with deadly spider venom

PM awards innovation prize to ��̽�� venom researcher

��̽�� explores health partnerships with Torres Strait Islands