Professor William Parsonage, AusHSI clinical director and senior staff cardiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and St Vincent’s, has been announced as new President of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
MTPConnect, the Lowitja Institute and the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation have released guidance to help those funding or shaping First Nations health research to achieve long-term impact.
A simple improvement in oral care for hospitalised patients reduced the risk of non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia by 60 percent, a trial of 8870 patients in three Australian hospitals has found.
New research published in The BMJ has exposed the sheer scale of fake studies flooding cancer science. Working as a “scientific spam filter”, a new AI tool developed by Prof Adrian Barnett and colleagues identifies cancer research publications that are likely to have been produced by paper mills, organisations that mass produce fake research.
The Powerful Pictures study has been recognised for transforming cardiac care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Far North Queensland, receiving the inaugural Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Award at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Annual Scientific Meeting on 26 November 2025.
A new international study led by Dr Qing Xia and published in JAMA Surgery has found that bariatric surgery improves work productivity and employment rates in the short term—but these gains may not last beyond five years without targeted support.
Dr Bridget Abell, a Senior Research Fellow in implementation science at AusHSI, was presented with the Alan Goble Distinguished Service Award at the 2025 Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) Annual Scientific Meeting in August in Brisbane.
Latest e-scooter injury data released by Queensland’s peak injury research body, Jamieson Trauma institute (JTI), shows presentations to hospital emergency departments continue to escalate, with private e-scooter riders now compromising two-thirds of hospital presentations. The research findings will play a critical role in JTI’s submission to the State Parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility safety and use.
A/Prof Zephanie Tyack has been awarded $992,441 from the MRFF Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant program for the project, ‘Ember to Empower’: developing and piloting a one-stop burn recovery toolkit for burn survivors. A consumer advisory group of burn survivors will advise on all aspects of the study.
A global Commission published in the Lancet, which involved more than 20 experts around the world including Prof Will Parsonage, has called on the medical profession to change the way it treats coronary artery disease – the most common form of heart disease – encouraging clinicians to shift the focus towards early prevention and cure.
