Queensland

Gold Coast, Queensland Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon Using Video to Give Virtual Tours of his Practice

Dr. Craig Layt at Restore Rejuvenate Respect in Ballina, New South Wales and Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia is finding new ways to reach out to the community by dramatically reimagining his website, giving prospective patients video tours of his practice and web documentaries detailing the bre...

Fluoridated water for Queensland ... at last

Griffith Universitys School of Dentistry and Oral Health welcomes the Queensland Governments decision to introduce fluoride into the public drinking water a measure endorsed by all major international and Australian health bodies as the best way to prevent dental decay. The decision will en...

Unnecessary Diseases on the Rise in Queensland (Australia)

The Health of Queenslanders report, 2006, presents a grim fact. Diseases like diabetes, heart conditions,// kidney problems, stroke, etc. are peaking. The worst part is that fifty per cent of these diseases are avoidable. Health minister Stephen Robertson says that lifestyle diseases can be av...

Dentist Tested Positive For HIV - Queensland Health To Screen Patients

Queensland Health have stated that they are trying to contact up to 500 patients, for HIV screening as their// dentist has been tested positive for HIV. Authorities have explained that the dentist was practising in the Bowen and Collinsville hospital. Dr Jeannette Young, the chief health off...

Mammograms in Queensland Reviewed

Over 9,000 mammogram test results of women in north Queensland have been reviewed following allegations of inaccuracy by the state government.// According to the Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson there was an unusually low pickup of cancer rates in the Cairns area in recent months. ...

Meningococcal Scare in Queensland

Queensland Health has issued a warning asking parents to be vigilant about meningococcal disease after a two-year-old boy died from it. The boy was taken to the Mareeba Hospital on Saturday with fever-like symptoms, but was sent to the Cairns Base Hospital.// However he died there in the emerg...

TGen-led team is 1 of 7 selected for $1 million skin-cancer grants

...ipal Investigators in the TGen-led research are: Dr. Nicolas Hayward of the queensland (Australia) Institute of Medical Research; Dr. Goran Jonsson of Lund (Swede..., Ph.D., Translational Genomics Research Institute Nicolas Hayward, Ph.D., queensland Institute of Medical Research Goran Jonsson, Ph.D., Lund University Grah...

More Dairy, Calcium in Childhood Could Mean Longer Life

... eating these foods in adulthood contributes to heart disease, researchers say. For the study, a research team led by Jolieke van der Pols from the queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia, collected data on children from 1,343 families in England and Scotland. All of the families took...

What are the most effective ways of promoting physical exercise in adults?

...s they result in. Considered as a package, researchers at the University of queensland also conclude that these six interventions could reduce death and illness f...illion deaths per year. Linda Cobiac and colleagues at the University of queensland reviewed the medical literature to identify a range of interventions to pro...

March of Dimes Names Two New Trustees

...es. In 2008, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Advertising Hall of Achievement. A native of Australia, he is a graduate of queensland University of Technology. He and his wife have four children and live in Bronxville, New York. Robert Woudstra , Chief Executive Officer of Fa...

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Queensland in Medical Technology

Phase 1 Trial of Whole-Parasite Malaria Vaccine to Begin

...y Sanaria directed at realizing the dream of a practical malaria vaccine preparation based upon whole parasites," states Michael Good, Director of the queensland Institute of Medical Research. Myron M. Levine, Director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development note...

Bioimpedance Spectroscopy is More Accurate and Reliable Than Other Methods of Subclinical Assessment of Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Patients, According to Paper Published in Journal of Clinical Oncology

...edema After Breast Cancer: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Effect on Upper Body Function," the paper, authored by Sandra Hayes, PhD., and colleagues from queensland University of Technology in Australia, is based on a study that involved 265 breast cancer patients. Approximately 87 percent of the patients had unde...

Preclinical Studies Show Promise for Novel Antibody Therapy to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

...ience/Hanson Institute for Cancer Research in South Australia, Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and the queensland Institute for Medical Research, Australia, its key collaborators in this important project. For further information please contact: Associate Pro...

Queensland in Medical Dictionary

Q fever

...ing infected milk, but most infections are ... Q fever is a highly infectious disease that is carried by animals and passed to humans. ... queensland Department of Primary Industries fact sheet on Q Fever ... A medical humor and satire website for healthcare professionals, with news, article...

Queensland in Biological News

Investing wisely to save the Great Barrier Reef

...ces. Leading scientists from CSIRO, James Cook University, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the queensland Government worked in collaboration to design the process and provide the necessary scientific input to support the decision. Stakeholders were co...

Super-sleepers could help super-sizers!

...e for several years buried in the mud in the absence of any food or water. How do they accomplish this feat? A team of scientists at the University of queensland have discovered that the metabolism of their cells changes radically during the dormancy period allowing the frogs to maximise the use of their limite...

What makes a great footballer?

...urn an average bloke into a Ronaldo. Now, scientists from the University of queensland have decided to study what this "something else" might be. Dr. Robbie Wilso... and future requirements." Members of the semi-professional University of queensland Football Club (UQFC) were recruited as experimental subjects, and they were...

Rainforest rehab in every sense

...o manage power," Mr Moore said. "Our nodes are able to stay on-line, adaptively reducing their workload, to minimise the amount of power used." queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management spokesman, Jonathan Hodge, said the technology is helping to "push the boundaries of environmental s...

'Jellyfish joyride' a threat to the oceans

... New research led by CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and University of queensland scientist, Dr Anthony Richardson, presents convincing evidence that this 'jellyfish joyride' is associated with over-fishing and excess nutrients from...

WWF study says climate change could displace millions in Asia's Coral Triangle

...ne scenario, we continue along our current climate trajectory and do little to protect coastal environments from the onslaught of local threats," said queensland University Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, who led the study. "In this world, people see the biological treasures of the Coral Triangle destroyed over t...

Historical increase in corn yield -- it's in the roots

...stralia and the U.S.A., led by Professor Graeme Hammer of The University of queensland (UQ), conducted this study on the leaves and roots of corn as part of an Au...ith Pioneer Hi-Bred International. The project included scientists from UQ, queensland Department of Primary Industries, and Pioneer. Their approach involved ...

Dangerous printer particles identified

... The identity and origin of tiny, potentially hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers have been revealed by a new study at queensland University of Technology. Professor Lidia Morawska from QUT's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health lead the study to answer questio...

Hoarding rainwater could 'dramatically' expand range of dengue-fever mosquito

...as widespread in urban Australia, stretching as far south as Sydney and Perth. By the late 1960s, Ae. aegypti was restricted to the northern half of queensland (where it currently resides) thanks in part to removal of old galvanised tin rainwater tanks, installation of piped water, insecticides and new power ...

Cost of hatchling turtles' dash for freedom

... deep waters. But how much does this headlong dash through the waves cost the intrepid hatchlings? Curious to know, David Booth from the University of queensland decided to measure hatchling turtles' oxygen consumption rates as they swam for safety. Booth publishes his results in The Journal of Experimental Bi...

Queensland in Biological Technology

Xenome Receives a Syndicated US$10 Million Equity Investment from Queensland BioCapital Fund, Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Innovis Investment Partners

BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Xenome Ltd, a specialist biopharmaceutical company developing novel peptide drugs, announced today that it has successfully raised US$10M of equity finance. The syndicated funding round includes continuing support from Xenome's major investor, Queen...

Open Biosystems' Open Access RNAi Program Adopted by University of Copenhagen and University of Queensland

Unique program continues to advance collaborative research worldwide HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Biosystems, Inc., announced today that leading research institutions, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Diamantina Institute at the University of Queensland, and...

Caliper Life Sciences Introduces Staccato Protein Workstation for Automated Protein Sample Preparation & Analysis

...uch as Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Karlshrue Institute of Technology, National Cancer Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and University of queensland ; and biotechnology companies such as Amgen, ICx Biosystems, and XcellereX. For additional information on Caliper's research tools for sample pre...

Ground Zero Pharmaceuticals Announces Expansion of Regulatory and Product Development Consulting Services

...toring services for Clinical Studies. Evan Siegel, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, lectures as an Adjunct Professor at the University of queensland in Brisbane, Australia. GZP, at its Irvine, California offices, hosted its first regulatory interns from the School of Pharmacy and Biotechnology prog...

Implicit Awarded US $16.3 Million U.S. Government Contract to Develop Immunomodulatory Drug for Biodefense Threats

...was named 2006 Australian of the Year for his work in developing a vaccine for human papillomavirus. Implicit is pleased to acknowledge the support of queensland government's teQstart Pty Ltd, which provides key early-stage investment for the state's high technology and biotechnology companies. ...

Quantitative Analysis of GFP in Plant Extracts Using the VersaFluor Fluorometer System

... Adrian R. Elliott, Peer M. Schenk and Christopher P.L. Grof CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, Brisbane, queensland Introduction The Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria is a useful reporter gene in hig...

Queensland in Biological Definition

Insectivore

...individually small, insects exist in enormous numbers and make up a very large part of the animal biomass in almost all non-marine environments. In queensland pastures, for example, it is normal to have a greater total weight of scarab beetle larvae under the surface than of the beef cattle grazing above ...

Stem cell

...own by Prof. Alan Mackay-Sim, [6] deputy director of Griffith University ’s new Institute for Cellular and Molecular Therapies in Brisbane , queensland , Australia . He was awarded Queenslander of the Year in 2003 for his work. His team successfully grew adult stem cells harvested from the human ...