Long-term smokers involved in a study just published by University of Newcastle health researchers believed that the quality of their cigarettes had deteriorated following the implementation of plain packaging.

In December 2012 Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes.

University of Newcastle researchers have helped unearth more than 100 genetic variants associated with schizophrenia, after contributing to the largest genome-wide study of the disease ever conducted.

With little being known about the diets of expectant Indigenous mums, University of Newcastle nutrition researchers are using smartphone technology to gather first-hand insights and provide personalised feedback.

Professor Smith was invited to speak to the Department of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine at the main hospital at the University of Indonesia.

Critical mass of researchers with interests in pancreatic cancer with complementary skillsets in cancer biology, medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and natural product chemistry within our lab, to find plant-based anti-cancer drugs.

Data from our local Hunter Community Study to an international effort to identify genes contributing to lung function; these are obviously important for diseases such as asthma and emphysema.

Australian and New Zealand researchers have discovered a powerful new prostate cancer treatment regime that can reduce the spread of aggressive but apparently localised tumours by more than 40 per cent.