Do you have a peanut allergy? Monash Health recently welcomed the first trial patients, Nila and Isabella, for a new medication to treat peanut allergies. In Australia, approximately 3 in 100 infants suffer from peanut allergies. While...
Neurologist and Multiple Sclerosis specialist, Dr Nevin John, has been awarded the coveted NHMRC Ideas Grant to understand how pregnancy improves the effects of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).The $1.36 million grant will fund the study over 4 years, enabling...
Monash Health and Monash University have reached a significant milestone in their innovative brain tumour research initiative.The Monash Live Bio-Banking (MoLBi) study, launched in November 2024, has successfully enrolled 25 patients, marking the full operationalisation of state-of-the-art infrastructure...
An evolving technology that can screen for more than 600 different gene fusions (two or more genes joined together) in a single test, has been approved as a diagnostic tool at Monash Health. A study by...
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...
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...
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...
The largest-ever global study involving Monash Health researchers has found the decades long “tradition” of administering a two-week course of antibiotics for bloodstream infection may not be necessary....
As reported in today’s Herald Sun, the Victorian Heart Hospital and Victorian Heart Institute are helping expand treatment options for people with high cholesterol that puts them at risk of heart attack or stroke, including...