Melbourne at cutting edge of fight to find bird flu vaccine
Australia will have enough medication by 2007 to treat half of the nation's population in the event of a bird flu outbreak//. ..Melbourne researchers will know by the end of the month if they have developed the world's first bird flu vaccine...Prof. Terry Nolan, head of the vaccine project, said a non-active strain of bird flu virus was used in the vaccine project, in which 400 volunteers receive...Melbourne Cluster Of Brain Tumour Not Due To Radiation From Phone Towers
Stating that there is no evidence to blame phones towers, the chief executive of the Cancer Council Australia, Alan Coates, has stated that chance// is a more likely explanation for the Melbourne cluster of brain tumours than radiation from mobile phones or any other environmental exposure. . ....Professor Coates explained that the cluster of disease happen by chance, he said that there is usuall...Melbourne University Launches Plan To Produce More Caring Doctors
Melbourne University has launched a plan to improve the bedside manners of would-be doctors. For this plan to come into effect, the medical students will be "embedded" with patients suffering from a chronic illness such as diabetes or arthritis for two years. // ....This program will be compulsory for the students and is identical to a program at Harvard Medical School in the US. "I think it wou...