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  Track your impact!

  Now when you back a research team, we’ll send you a notification when your Time is being used! Every $44 means a real hour of time for our research teams...

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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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  Together, let's cure homesickness

  Kids are admitted to hospital for all sorts of reasons, but there's one kind of sickness that unites them all: homesickness. And Australia is coming together to try to beat it.

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  Research Funded: Congratulations, Dr Prasadam!

  Congratulations to Dr Indira Prasadam, who has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). She now has the certainty to continue her ground...

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  Gin with a Twist Fundraiser | Sat 31 August

  Delight in some of Australia's finest gins and help raise vital funds for silicosis research as we welcome in spring at the Gin with a Twist event.

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  Could a foot selfie save your life?

  Diabetic foot disease is a silent but major epidemic. Researchers are developing a mobile app to help people care for diabetic foot ulcers at home.

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  Is there a best before date for blood?

  With 1 in every 3 Australians needing a blood transfusion in their lifetime, Monica Ng wants to reduce the risks and complications associated with the transfusion procedure. Having identified evidence that the period of time packed red blood cells are stored can be associated with poor clinical outcomes, Monica has set out to discover exactly what storage and the act of transfusion itself is doing to blood, and how that is translating in patients.

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  Are current sepsis treatments bad for the heart?

  A fever, chills down your spine, heart racing and nausea; these are all things you might feel if you have severe infection (or sepsis). In Australia, severe infection will hospitalise about 15,000 people, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends they are treated one of two ways; fluid resuscitation and/or blood transfusion. However, alarmingly, an award-winning study has revealed that these guidelines could actually lead to heart failure and vascular collapse.

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  Understanding right ventricle complications

  This is a world first project using fibre optics to create a responsive heart pump.

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