If you didn’t have food allergies as a child, is it possible to develop them as an adult? The short answer is yes. But the reasons why are much more complicated.
Category: Research
No, taking drugs like Ozempic isn’t ‘cheating’ at weight loss or the ‘easy way out’
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’
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 […]
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.
How HMRI researchers are predicting the next pandemic
Pandemics have been around forever. Hunter New England Health Infectious Disease physician and Director of HMRI’s Infection Research Program, Professor Joshua Davis says, “As long as humans encroach on habitat, eat animal products, travel globally or have anything to with bats, we are going to continue to experience pandemics.” So how can we predict and […]
What is polytrauma?
HMRI Researcher of the Year, Professor Zsolt Balogh, wants polytrauma recognised as a disease. His international peers are in agreement with him on this concept.
New research investigates the genetics of circulating vitamin A
A Newcastle research team has been exploring the role of vitamin A in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders.
