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Five ways to cope after traumatic events

April 17, 2024

It’s normal to experience traumatic stress following a disturbing event, whether it’s a traffic accident, plane crash, or a violent crime like we saw at Bondi Westfield over the weekend. These are abnormal events, but it's no abnormal to feel.
HMRI Director and mental health researcher Professor Frances Kay-Lambkin provides some...

Researchers provide world-first platform to help understand how bushfire smoke harms the lungs and heart

April 8, 2024

A team of researchers led by Professor Jay Horvat and Dr Henry Gomez have developed a world-first platform to define the impact of exposure to landscape fire smoke on the heart and lungs.

Foundation to fund research into secondary stroke prevention

April 4, 2024

Clinical researchers from John Hunter Hospital, Hunter Medical Research Institute and the University of Newcastle will launch a study into the cardiac causes of stroke thanks to $268,176 in funding from the Greater Charitable Foundation.

Solving the enigmatic condition of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

April 4, 2024

Gut health researcher Dr Grace Burns, from HMRI's Immune Health Research Program, says that the term IBS has been around for decades for but it’s only in the past 15 years or so that the medical community has started to take it seriously.

What is polytrauma?

March 27, 2024

HMRI Researcher of the Year, Professor Zsolt Balogh, wants polytrauma recognised as a disease. His international peers are in agreement with him on this concept.

NHMRC names Dr Rachel Sutherland’s SWAP It program in its annual 10 of the Best

March 27, 2024

Population Health researcher, Dr Rachel Sutherland’s SWAP It program has been named in the 10 of the Best research programs at the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) annual Research Excellence Awards Dinner held in Canberra tonight.

"A magnet helped saved my husband's life"

March 27, 2024

When somebody experiences a stroke, every minute counts and being aware of the signs and symptoms is a critical factor to help achieve the best health outcomes for stroke patients.
HMRI supporter Alice Ginns had one of HMRI's stroke awareness magnets on her fridge and she shares her story about how that constant reminder helped save her husband's life when he experienced a stroke.

How HMRI researchers are predicting the next pandemic

March 25, 2024

Pandemics have been around forever.

Hunter New England Health Infectious Disease physician and Director of HMRI’s Infection Research Program, Professor Joshua Davis says, “As long as humans encroach on habitat, eat animal products, travel globally or have anything to with bats, we are going to continue to experience pandemics.”

So how can we predict and monitor this? The answer is simple: surveillance.

Humans of HMRI: Introducing Dr Elissa Elvidge

March 22, 2024

Introducing Dr Elissa Jane Elvidge, a public health researcher working on the ‘Breathe for Bub’ program that aims to co-design culturally safe and clinically effective care for Aboriginal women with asthma during pregnancy.

Newcastle expertise attracts $7.5m Australian Government grant to help boost Pacific region’s health

March 19, 2024

A University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Local Health District partnership working to strengthen field epidemiology capacity, disease surveillance and outbreak response in the Pacific for the past 10 years has been awarded $7.5m in Australian Government funding to continue their important
work supporting public health training programs in the region.

New research investigates the genetics of circulating vitamin A

March 14, 2024

A Newcastle research team has been exploring the role of vitamin A in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders.