We know how important a healthy diet is when we are well, but for someone who has been acutely ill, or who is recovering from surgery, nutrition takes on added importance. To help patients, families...
Updated guidelines on diagnosing and managing a condition when a woman’s ovaries stop working before she is 40 have been published in Climacteric, Fertility & Sterility, and Human Reproduction Open journals. The multidisciplinary Monash Health Menopause clinic provides specialist care...
In a world first, the team at Monash Children’s Hospital has successfully collected and reinfused umbilical cord blood cells in extremely premature babies, offering hope for preventing brain injuries.As reported by Robyn Riley in the Herald...
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Monash Health! Across our sites, garlands are hung, Christmas trees festooned and lights twinkling....
The halls of Dandenong Hospital were alive with the sounds of carols this month! Staff, volunteers and members of the local community sang their way around the hospital on December 3, spreading festive spirit. ‘They were fantastic, just...
Monash Health’s Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) has won the ‘Leadership in Co-design' category at this year’s Victorian Disability Awards.Recognised for their work with people with disability, CDDH created the My Lived iD website...
Monash Health is providing renewed hope to cancer patients who do not respond well to chemotherapy. The Monash Health Haematology team has recently developed clinical trial capabilities for studies utilising a form of immunotherapy called CAR-T...
An innovative Monash University and Monash Health research collaboration called ‘CryoCare’ is working to develop a device to allow infusions of cooled medication at home. CryoCare has developed two prototypes to maintain the antibiotic at a...
Two years ago, Lief was found face down and unconscious in his family’s swimming pool. Today, the four-year-old is thriving....
In Australia, approximately 3 in 100 infants suffer from peanut allergies. While research shows that by age six, about 30% of children outgrow their peanut allergy, it’s still one of the common food allergies affecting...