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Category: Preventative Health

The Pathology of Gluttony

Inaugural Lecture Mention “cirrhosis” and it typically conjurs an immediate association with excessive alcohol consumption. But although this connection is well established, it’s not the end of the story. The full spectrum of so-called “fatty liver diseases” that interfere with the liver’s normal metabolism of fat and lead to cirrhosis, are also increasingly recognised as […]

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Battling the Bugs

What’s working and what could be done better to control childhood infectious disease
 
Presented by: A/Prof. Helen Marshall

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The Discriminating Female

How the choosy female immune system exercises reproductive quality control
Presented by: Sarah Robertson
When: Tues 10th May, 5.30-6.30pm
Where: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre. North Terrace Campus

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Widgets, gadgets and other health technologies

Using evidence, priorities and values to guide choices.

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Looking after your brain – new approaches to an age-old problem.

How the brain works remains one of the great unknowns of modern medicine. This is even more of an issue when it comes to how the brain attempts to survive and recover from acute (stroke and trauma) and chronic (neurodegeneration) injury. This lecture will examine some of the revolutionary new approaches being developed for brain […]

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