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  STRAWBERRY SUNDAES FUND NEW RESEARCH!

  10 new medical research projects are putting the money raised from the successful 2020 Ekka Strawberry Sundaes campaign to immediate use.

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  From Diesel Emissions to High Fibre Diets: Changing the way we look at Lung Disease

  Annalicia is now performing a clinical trial to see if dietary fibre can reduce inflammation in lung cells through healthy gut bacteria.

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  Finding the best process to reinflate collapsed lungs

  Thousands of people every year find themselves in Intensive Care suffering a life-threatening illness - and many will experience collapsed lungs. There is no definitive way to best restore the lungs after collapse - sometimes it's done using a ventilator, other times they are manually inflated.

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  Emergency Silicosis Appeal

  Advance our lifesaving research into silicosis. This is unprecedented. We’ve launched an Emergency Silicosis Appeal because we need your help to tackle an escalating health crisis.

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  Identifying sleep apnoea in mental health patients

  Dr James Anderson, a Sleep Fellow at The Prince Charles Hospital, wants to make sure that these most vulnerable people in our community are receiving the care they need.

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  Stem cell therapy for lung disease

  Dr Chambers and his team in the thoracic lab at The Prince Charles Hospital are looking for the first key in effectively treating IPF.

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  Predicting flare ups in chronic lung diseases

  The success of this project will lead to improved quality of care and reduced side effects for people with CADs, as well as reduce the number of people who fall seriously ill or die from these debilitating diseases.

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  Identifying the cause to improve treatment of COPD 'flare ups'

  Certain pathogens are responsible for a large portion of exacerbations in COPD patients - however it is not clear exactly which ones. Professor Ian Yang wants to define the most common pathogens (viral, bacterial or fungal), that affect COPD patients at TPCH, so the correct antibiotics are administered and patients recover from these illnesses faster.

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  How do air pollutants affect patients with COPD?

  Patients with lung disease already experience infections, flare-ups and difficulty breathing. So what happens when these people are exposed to air pollutants, which are damaging even for healthy lungs?

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