Category: News & Articles
Hunter New England Health clinician and researcher Nicole Turner was honoured at the recent 2014 NSW Aboriginal Health Awards for her work in encouraging nutritious eating, physical ... Gomeroi gaaynggal Program seeks to improve kidney development during intrauterine life with an aim to understand and improve pregnancy ...
Category: Research
... research group investigating new and unique aspects of reproductive health and biotechnologies. Approximately 1 in 6 couples in Australia ... aged over 35 years of age have fertility problems. (Source - ABC Health & Wellbeing Infertility Fact File ) In fact, more than 1 per cent ... are the product of successful scientific technologies. (Source - ABC Health & Wellbeing Infertility Fact File ) The increased popularity of ...
Category: Research
... are the product of successful scientific technologies. ( Source - ABC Health & Wellbeing Infertility Fact File ) The HMRI Pregnancy and ... Reproduction research group specialise in all aspects of reproductive health. From how bacteria, chemicals and genetics can all affect ... in life. A baby born with low birth weight (a surrogate marker for intrauterine health) may have an increased risk for adult diseases such ...
Category: Research
... every year born premature in Australia. ( Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - 2011) Unfortunately, despite the high prevalence of ... to have a baby of low birth weight (12.6%). ( Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - 2011) The Mothers and Babies Research Centre are ... outcomes in Indigenous women. Other pregnancy complications including intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and maternal stress are also a ...
Category: News & Articles
... of Tamworth, using a positive strengths-based approach to building health education for Aboriginal women throughout their pregnancy and ... of Tamworth, using a positive strengths-based approach to building health education for Aboriginal women throughout their pregnancy and ... Elders. Running alongside this community education program is a health research study of international significance, which is trying to ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... me on my toes. I am passionate about improving maternal and infant health - so having healthier pregnancies is certainly a good place to ... is to improve pregnancy outcomes to improve maternal and infant health. This could be in the form of a new screening tool to detect ... and Babies Research Centre. Her research looks at the role of the intrauterine (within the uterus), circulating and intrarenal (within the ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... preterm birth. Tissue renin-angiotensin systems and cancer. Maternal health and pregnancy outcome in Indigenous Australians Why did you get ... is strategic basic research; it underpins all major advances in human health. As a medical graduate I was frustrated at the lack of knowledge ... Emeritus Professor Lumbers began work on the role(s) of the human intrauterine renin angiotensin system (RAS). In partnership with Dr ...
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... new ultrasound equipment that allows the continuation of its vital health and research support for expectant Indigenous mothers. Following ... ultrasound machine. The UON provided $50,000 via its Faculty of Health and Medicine, and Research and Innovation division, Tamworth ... Indigenous communities are born small and can have a condition called intrauterine growth retardation, which can be picked up during the final ...
Category: Research
... call to action, concluding that greater knowledge of causes is a key health priority. In Australia, stillbirth accounts for around 70% of all ... post-dated placentas. The known exponential increase in unexplained intrauterine death that occurs after 38 weeks of gestation may therefore ...
Category: Research
... call to action, concluding that greater knowledge of causes is a key health priority. In Australia, stillbirth accounts for around 70% of all ... post-dated placentas. The known exponential increase in unexplained intrauterine death that occurs after 38 weeks of gestation may therefore ...
