Radiation oncologists at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) are aiming to give patients every possible advantage in their fight against metastatic lung cancer. The multi-centre OUTRUN study is testing whether combining drug therapy with precisely focused radiosurgery...
Deciding whether to have a kidney transplant is a major decision for patients and clinicians which may become easier thanks to intuitive predictions using a new approach to statistical modelling. Dr Georgina Irish, Consultant nephrologist at the Royal Adelaide...
Researchers at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital are developing an evidence-based question prompt list (QPL) to help patients understand complex information in their surgical consultations and ask the questions that matter to them. A QPL is a list of suggested questions...
Video series: Translating Research In this episode we speak to Dr Katharina Richter about her research on defeating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We learn about: the growing problem of antibiotic resistant superbugs why antibiotics don’t work against some...
A world-first study examining the effect of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction for patients with emphysema is underway at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The procedure is proven to be highly beneficial, but the researchers are using a suite of cardiac, respiratory and...
Researchers at the Centre for Cancer Biology have uncovered key evidence to support first in human trials of emerging immunotherapy against deadly brain tumours. The ground-breaking work has revealed the GD2 molecule on brain cancer cells as a viable target for the...
