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October 2019

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16 October 2019 It takes a village to raise a child and an entire community to support pregnant women to grow healthy babies, says one University of Queensland researcher. Associate Professor Deborah Askew’s newly awarded Churchill Fellowship will allow her to learn from urban First Nations communities in Canada and Alaska about how they have...
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20 September 2019 UQ researchers have discovered a potential drug target for Alzheimer’s disease — an enzyme which has effects on both the immune and nervous systems. Dr Ramón Martínez-Mármol and Professor Frédéric A. Meunier from the Queensland Brain Institute Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research found that targeting one enzyme could combat the...
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19 September 2019 A new residency program in Emergency Medicine was recently approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program will be based at the Ochsner Medical Center and expects to welcome the first class of six learners to begin their training on July 1, 2020. The program is expected to...
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