Health

More than 50 per cent of Australians with chronic health conditions don’t take their medication correctly, with potentially serious implications for their health. The solution might lie in the hands of community pharmacists.

Massive amounts of data can be produced and stored today and at a much cheaper cost than ever before. The challenge for statisticians like Dr Tui Nolan is to develop effective methods for accurate analysis as ‘big data’ grows ever bigger.

Infertility affects one in six Australian women and is the source of great personal suffering for those wanting to build a family. For many, that distress has been compounded by complex and inconsistent rules surrounding fertility treatments.

New insights into the way bacteria move are already changing the medical device industry and could prove crucial in the fight against multi-drug-resistant superbugs.

Researchers at the ithree institute have designed a unique computer vision program to precisely analyse thousands of individual bacterial cells, revealing never-before-seen characteristics that will enable better management of infectious diseases.

Researchers in the Centre for Forensic Science are looking beyond solving individual crimes. In collaboration with Australian and Australian and international authorities and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, the team are using forensic case data to inform crime prevention.