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University of Adelaide’s commitment to Indigenous engagement strengthened through senior leadership
Professor Shane Hearn, a Noongar man from Western Australia, has been appointed the inaugural Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement).
Could a machine be better than your doctor?
A machine learning-led revolution is underway. It is changing the way we communicate, work, shop and drive. Machine learning is also revolutionising medicine, altering forever the way we understand, build evidence on, and are able to respond to, health problems.
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New Allied Health degrees add to Uni of Adelaide’s unrivalled health and medical education
The University of Adelaide will introduce a suite of Allied Health degrees to its educational line-up in 2021.
Paving the way towards safer treatment for peanut allergies in children
Co-treatments like antihistamines and probiotics make successful desensitisation treatment of peanut allergy in children via oral immunotherapy 10 percent more likely, researchers from the University of Adelaide have found.
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Past climate safe havens now most vulnerable
The profound threat of future climate change to biodiversity demands that scientists seek ever more effective ways to identify the most vulnerable species, communities, and ecosystems.
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Fire Aid concert brings community to campus
Thousands of South Australians will today converge on the University of Adelaide for a good cause: the FIRE AID bushfire fundraising concert.
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Uni of Adelaide staff and graduates at forefront of Australia Day awards
The University of Adelaide congratulates eye surgeon and blindness prevention pioneer Dr James Muecke, AM, for being named the Australian of the Year for 2020.
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Nationwide diabetes study enters next stage
The Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) Study into the causes of type 1 diabetes has entered its next phase. 1500 children who have a first-degree relative with type 1 diabetes will be followed for three years from the pregnancy.
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New evidence for protective role of Vitamin D in breast cancer in Pakistani women
A new study supports scientific literature that deficient levels of serum vitamin D may contribute to breast cancer and its correction may play a role in protection against breast cancer.
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Study results will inform immunisation programs globally
The results of the B Part of It study – the largest meningococcal B herd immunity study ever conducted – are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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