Monash Health is incredibly fortunate to have a talented and diverse workforce, with women making up 76% of employees and undertaking a wide array of roles across the health service. On International Women's Day, celebrated...
The School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) is proud to announce that three of our esteemed researchers have been awarded over $6.6 million in funding in the latest National Health and Medical Research Council...
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...
Monash Health held its inaugural Nursing and Midwifery Research Showcase last month, celebrating the vital role of research in enhancing patient care. The event featured three research projects, highlighting their innovative studies aimed at improving...
In Australia each year, around 3,000 families experience a stillbirth or the loss of a newborn baby. Despite advances in medicine, Monash Health resident medical officer Dr Keeth Mayakaduwage says stillbirth rates have remained unacceptably...
Kingston Home-Based Community Rehabilitation physiotherapist and Principal Investigator Dr Katrina Kenah will be conducting the LIFT (Learning Independent Floor Transfers) study to design and test the feasibility of a floor transfer training program to improve...