Doctors handwriting a prescription with dried medicinal cannabis.

Australians spent more than A$400 million on medicinal cannabis in the first half of 2024 alone.

13 January 2025
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Fall-related injuries in Australia’s residential aged care could be costing the health system $325 million annually, a University of Queensland study has revealed.

13 January 2025
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Mental illness in Australian youth is rising. We don’t know why but despite very little evidence, social media is bearing the brunt of the blame.

7 January 2025
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Canine hookworms are becoming increasingly resistant to drugs across Australia and New Zealand, according to new research.

7 January 2025
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Australian women are better educated than men but still face poorer job prospects and lower incomes.

2 January 2025
A cheetah in front of a racetrack

Researchers have taken a giant step towards solving the mystery of why intermediately sized animals are the fastest.

19 December 2024
Animal-inspired liquid metal 'spines' in focus being held with tweezers with a researcher wear safety goggles in the background.

UQ researchers have developed a 3D printing method to produce shape-shifting liquid metal robotics with musculoskeletal qualities inspired by animal physiology.

19 December 2024
Sandstone pillar with Jacaranda tree in full bloom in the distance.

UQ has conferred its highest honour on one of the university's first Torres Strait Islander graduates along with a highly regarded economist and an acclaimed author.  

11 December 2024
An illustration of the protein buildup on neurons that contributes to motor and cognitive symptoms.

A potential new treatment for motor neurone disease developed by a company spun out of UQ has produced successful results in a human clinical trial.

10 December 2024
a view of very green dense foliage and a large tree trunk covered in ferns

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction.

10 December 2024
A man and a woman in graduation attire posing on stage - the man holding a cylinder

Recent graduate Dr T’kido Titasey almost gave up on his medicine degree, but a strong connection to his hometown encouraged him to give it another try.

9 December 2024
A black and white still image from a video showing a bee with a refelective marker on its back approaching a flower.

Technology that combines infrared lighting, robotics and a retroreflective marker is allowing scientists to follow and film insects as they fly in their natural environment.

5 December 2024
A woman stands at the front of a classroom holding period products.

UQ researchers have launched a menstrual health teaching guide for classrooms co-designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students.

4 December 2024

A topical cream to help prevent and treat skin cancers in organ transplant patients is a step closer to development.

29 November 2024
Large piece of white coral in a sea of blue with little fish in the distance.

Coral adaptation to global warming will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions in global greenhouse gasses, according to an international team of scientists.

29 November 2024
A young man is being helped from a wheelchair into a swimming pool by two trainers.

A competitive swimming program developed by UQ researchers for young people with severe cerebral palsy has reversed motor decline associated with the condition.

19 November 2024
A man in a white coat and blue gloves sits in front of a silver cannister

Forming a National Food Plan and appointing a food minister are among the key recommendations of a white paper into growing a precision fermentation industry in Australia.

18 November 2024
an older woman sits on a sofa clutching her stomach

UQ researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions.

18 November 2024
An AI overlay of traffic direction and movement as cars zoom on a freeway at dusk.

A Brisbane-based software start-up formed by Uniquest and using AI to improve road safety has been acquired by Canadian company Transoft Solutions.

15 November 2024