ISSUE FOUR 02
Spring into action
03 Labor and Medical Research – Investing in the future
04 The Coalition’s proud record supporting H&MR
05 Green industries hit ‘a hole in one’ for cancer research
07 New clinical trial to fight kids’ brain tumours
08 Clive Berghofer makes record breaking donation to QIMR
09 Can vitamin D prevent multiple sclerosis?
10 Improved screening drives
better health outcomes for rural children
11 New Auburn Clinical School Opens
12 Multimillion-dollar boost to brain diseases with opening of new research facility
13 Vaccine prevention of middle ear infection in children
14 ChIPS: A peer support group
helping young people living with chronic illness
15 Recovery on the HORYZON 16 UWS researcher receives accolade
RESEARCH AUSTRALIA
for Chinese Medicine research
17 Australian-Indonesian partnership yields practical solution to sanitation problems
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Editor’s Corner
AN ALLIANCE FOR DISCOVERIES IN HEALTH
SPRING 2013