Obesity medication that is effective has been a long time coming. Enter semaglutide (sold as Ozempic and Wegovy) which is helping people improve weight-related health, including lowering risk of heart attack and stroke, while also silencing ‘food noise’
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Winter is coming: HMRI Mothers & Babies research duo undertake biggest research project to date
HMRI researchers Dr Jonathan Paul and Dr Marina Paul, who met and married while working at HMRI, are about to undertake their biggest joint project: parenthood.
$4.8m NHMRC Investigator grants to improve health of our communities
Three University of Newcastle researchers have been awarded $4.8m in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grants* to find solutions to health problems such as pre-term birth and male infertility.
Community key to sector-first approach to Indigenous health
Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid to improve First Nations health outcomes.
New HMRI study aims to put asthma into remission
Researchers at HMRI and the University of Newcastle evaluated a drug called azithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, to see if it would put moderate to severe asthma into remission. Professor Peter Gibson from HMRI’s Asthma and Breathing program says that the findings were very promising. “We’ve taken a different approach by testing another type of drug. […]
Prevent Prem study to assess premature birth risk
HMRI is part of a world-first study called Prevent Prem that aims to develop a tool to predict who is at risk of preterm birth and put interventions into place early.
Five ways to cope after traumatic events
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… particularly when they involve acts of aggression and death… and no matter how close to these incidents we are, it is […]
Researchers provide world-first platform to help understand how bushfire smoke harms the lungs and heart
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. The researchers found that short and long-term exposure to landscape fire smoke particulate matter (bushfire smoke) increased the hyperresponsiveness of airways and […]
Foundation to fund research into secondary stroke prevention
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. Stroke researchers, Dr Carlos Garcia-Esperon, Professor Neil Spratt and Professor Chris Levi, will assess the effectiveness of doing a CT […]
Solving the enigmatic condition of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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.