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Summarising a fractured debate about meat, fish, eggs, vegetables and bones

MEDIA RELEASE: 02 Jul 2009 Until now, medical opinion about the impact of vegetarian diets on bone health has been based on anecdotal evidence and a range of contradictory findings that sometimes rely on studies too small to be biologically relevant. A review and analysis of all relevant existing research shows that differences in bone mineral density between meat eaters and all vegetarians is 5%. The jury is still out on whether that translates into higher fracture risk. More
 

Garvan IT honoured by Computerworld

29 Jun 2009 Garvan was one of the 2009 finalists in the Education and Academia category of Computerworld's Honors Program for its innovative centralised medical research database. The awards recognise organisations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for originality of conception, breadth of vision and significance to society. More
 

A step towards finding the cancer switch

MEDIA RELEASE: 17 Jun 2009 Garvan epigeneticists describe exactly what happens to a person's DNA the moment at which a breast cancer suppressor gene is switched off - taking us one step closer towards finding ways to control the biochemical processes that 'switch on' bad genes and 'switch off' good ones. More
 

How germs meet their opposites - a mystery revealed in real time

MEDIA RELEASE: 09 Jun 2009 Sophisticated microscope technology has made it possible for Australian and American scientists to record previously unknown interactions between two classes of immune cell right at the beginning of the 'antigen transport chain', the apex of the immune response. An important discovery, this takes us one step further towards being able to control disease and infection. More
 

Harnessing the brain's own ability for repair

MEDIA RELEASE: 02 Jun 2009 New findings uncovered by Garvan scientists throw light on how the brain heals itself and may change the way we think about treating chronic neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. More
 

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FRACTURE RISK CALCULATOR

Based on data from the 18-year Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study. For men and women 60 years and over to assess their individual risk of fracture.

www.fractureriskcalculator.com

 

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