A maternity program designed to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
11 October 2017
Many people spend hours in the gym every week and fill up on protein supplements in the quest for a ripped physique, but could all that hard work and money spent on sweet tasting powder be in vain?
19 November 2015University of Queensland researchers have found most Australians and Americans believe food is addictive and comparable to drug addiction.
30 September 2013Thousands of Australians suffer communication and swallowing disorders for various medical reasons that make the field of speech pathology more complex than ever before.
21 June 2013
Short bursts of high-intensity exercise could be a one-stop solution for many health problems.
28 May 2013
Over recent operations, Australian Army soldiers have carried the heaviest loads borne by soldiers in the past 3000 years.
23 April 2013New UQ research reveals menopausal women who gain weight, smoke and consume alcohol at risky levels face an increased risk of experiencing night sweats and hot flushes.
16 April 2013The University of Queensland Medical Society (UQMS) will stop to remember its medical colleagues and compatriots who sacrificed their lives to defend Australia.
16 April 2013Australian researchers are using social media to encourage young women to contribute towards one of Australia’s most significant studies on women’s health.
5 February 2013A project based at The University of Queensland is helping women who have survived breast cancer to lose weight and live healthier, longer lives.
26 October 2012Women in Australia are exercising less and most are not eating nearly enough vegetables, researchers have found.
26 September 2012Chronic pain relief, the employment aspirations of recently-arrived refugees, urban water use and improved animal production are among new research projects announced today in which The University of Queensland and industry partners will collaborate.
30 June 2012
An aspiring young exercise physiologist and global entrepreneur is one of five undergraduate UQ students bound for Mexico for an international summer school to foster economic growth.
31 May 2012With obesity at epidemic levels, The University of Queensland’s Children’s Nutrition Research Centre is opening its Body Composition Laboratory in the New Year to help Brisbane residents keep fit, not fat, in 2012.
22 December 2011University of Queensland researchers from the School of Human Movement Studies have together scooped four of the fourteen prestigious 2011 Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Awards (ASMF Fellow Awards).
16 November 2011A University of Queensland PhD scholar is examining the health effects of chewing wild tobacco plants by Central Australian Aboriginal women during pregnancy.
29 July 2011A ground-breaking report released today highlights the wide range of health care needs affecting older women.
31 March 2011University of Queensland Diamantina Institute PhD student, Veronique Chachay, hopes to determine if a nutrient found in grape skin could hold the key to better managing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
7 February 2011A study to identify why prolonged sitting could be fatal is one of 16 prestigious national awards and fellowships granted to health and medical researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ).
18 November 2010Overweight Australian adolescents aged 14 to 17 years are needed for a University of Queensland and Wesley Research Institute study that aims to achieve more accurate body measurement for this group.
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