The third annual Tour Des Femmes cycling event, representing “women who can doing it for women who can’t”, will leave Sydney on Friday morning, bound for Bowral in the Southern Highlands and 320 kilometres of riding over three days.

The use of immunosuppression therapy prior to kidney transplantation elevates the risk of all cancers – particularly cervical, breast and urinary tract cancers as well as non-Hodgkin lymphoma – a Newcastle-based clinical study has shown.

Young men who are in poor physical condition at 18 years of age run a greater risk of developing epilepsy later in life, an international study involving HMRI Director Professor Michael Nilsson has found.

University of Newcastle researcher Associate Professor Jodie Simpson received a 2013 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year award this afternoon for her pioneering work on combating inflammation in infection-induced asthma.

It is well known, epidemiologically, that the health and wellbeing of populations is closely correlated with the level of cultural engagement and education within the various communities.

HMRI’s Mothers and Babies research program leader Professor Roger Smith was confronted by a burgeoning suicide problem within the local community.

One of the first things a young child hears – and remembers – is mum and dad singing lullabies and nursery rhymes to them. From that moment on, music plays a powerful emotive role in a person’s physical and intellectual wellbeing

An asthma management study developed by University of Newcastle researchers, which halved asthma attacks in pregnant women, has also yielded a 90 per cent postnatal reduction in bronchiolitis and croup episodes among their children.

Tiny electrical junction boxes in our brains, known as glial cells, radically alter their structure and pattern of connectivity when exposed to chronic stress – with long-term implications for further cognitive and mood disturbances.

Radiation oncologist Associate Professor Jarad Martin, a member of HMRI’s Cancer Research Alliance, is using advanced MRI scanning to accurately track men’s bone composition as they undergo hormone therapy in conjunction with radiation treatment.