An HMRI trial of an intensive smoking intervention for pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women has won the prestigious ‘Prize for Excellence in Medical Research’ for the best research paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia during the past year.

A multinational consortium of medical researchers and social scientists has found a link between educational attainment and tiny variations in a person’s genetic sequence.

Life-saving stroke treatment developed at John Hunter Hospital and HMRI will be delivered to patients in the Manning Region thanks to new telehealth technology.

Hunter Children’s Research Foundation founders Janelle Shakespeare and Lorraine Gardner have been selected to grace the cover of this year’s Newcastle White Pages and Yellow Pages phone book, standing at the entrance to the new HMRI Building.

Using sophisticated computer modelling, a University of Newcastle researcher has helped find the missing piece to a 20-year cardiology puzzle – working out precisely how the heart regulates its beat.

HMRI physical education researcher David Lubans is leading a research project into the link between adolescent boys, the amount of time that they spend in front of a computer or TV screen and their level of physical fitness.

The rain didn’t stop guests at the HMRI Ball from coming out to support medical research on Saturday night.

As health and social conditions deteriorate in his native Papua New Guinea Highlands region, Catholic priest Matthew Landu is hoping that his connection with HMRI’s Mothers and Babies Research Program can be a stimulus for change.

A newly published study showing the cardiovascular impacts of choir singing may have important implications for stoke and brain injury recovery, according to Hunter Medical Research Institute Director Michael Nilsson.