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WA to implement University’s risk-reduction system UNHaRMED
The Western Australian Government has awarded a $2.2 million contract to a University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø research group to implement UNHaRMED – a natural hazard risk reduction approach and decision support system – in the state.
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New program targets oral health and language revival in APY Lands
A new art-driven pilot program by the University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s Mobile Language Team (MLT) is helping improve oral hygiene among Anangu (Aboriginal) children in remote communities while strengthening the Yankunytjatjara language on the APY Lands.
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Counting the cost of Long COVID and ME/CFS
In just one year, Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) cost the German economy €63.1 billion (AU$111 billion), or about 1.5 per cent GDP, according to a new German-Australian study.
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Depression linked to increased dementia risk
Having a diagnosis of depression in midlife or late-life may increase your risk of dementia, a new study by researchers from the University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has found.
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Children’s University expands to Mount Gambier
Young learners in the State’s southeast are receiving extra support for future pathways as Children’s University Australasia and Africa (CUAA) expands to Mount Gambier.
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Restoring treatment sensitivity to ER+ breast cancer
Researchers from the University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø have received funding to further their work into treatment resistant breast cancer.
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Impact of housing on children’s wellbeing
University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø researchers have secured funding from the  to develop a data framework for understanding children’s housing circumstances in Australia and their impacts.
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Participants needed for world-first pancreatic cancer study
South Australian and Victorian patients with pancreatic cancer will be able to participate in a world-first human comparative clinical trial that aims to improve symptoms and survival outcomes using faecal transplant in combination with chemotherapy compared to placebo.
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A career dedicated to unearthing the secrets of matter
The University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s distinguished theoretical physicist, eminent, Professor Derek Leinweber, has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of an outstanding career dedicated to unearthing the most fundamental secrets of matter.
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Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whale habitat
New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per cent.
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