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Thursday, 15 Dec 2016
  • Student profile

Natalie says her journey from drop-out to doctorate was “bumpy as hell”. In recounting her story she warns, you better “hold on for the ride!

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Danielle Dries
Wednesday, 14 Dec 2016
  • Student profile

Danielle Dries, a Kaurna woman from South Australia, has graduated with a Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Surgery with distinction at the ANU graduation ceremony today, now wants to close the gap on health and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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Dr Elizabeth Sturgiss and Dr Mel Deery
Wednesday, 14 Dec 2016
  • Research story

General practitioners (GPs) can and should do more to tackle the obesity epidemic in Australia, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has found.  

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Research lab
Monday, 05 Dec 2016
  • News

Researchers from the ANU have received more than $16 million in the latest funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), including major funding for projects to improve health of Indigenous Australians.

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Baby feet
Friday, 18 Nov 2016
  • News

Among the tubes, wires and beeping machines of the neonatal intensive care unit at the Canberra Hospital, there’s a simple piece of technology that has changed the lives of thousands of families: webcams.

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Friday, 04 Nov 2016
  • Research story

Dr Louise Stone from the ANU Medical School is telling a story that is so hard to tell, and so hard to hear, that it was almost never told at all.

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A tick found in Australia
Monday, 31 Oct 2016
  • Research story

Lyme disease cannot be contracted in Australia and patients should not be treated with antibiotics for so-called Lyme-like diseases, new medical research has found.

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Danielle Dries receiving her award
Friday, 28 Oct 2016
  • News

An inspiring final year Aboriginal medical student from the Australian National University is the recipient of the MDA National and Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) Rural Health Bursary for 2016.

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Dr Nicole Rodrigues
Thursday, 06 Oct 2016
  • News

ANU Medical School alumna, Dr Nicole Rodrigues, has become the first ACT recipient of the Gordon Gordon-Taylor Prize, awarded for the highest mark in a surgical entrance examination.

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