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Not just any P.A.R.T.Y: Young people make positive choices after RMH Program

19 May 2021

A Royal Melbourne Hospital program is helping change the lives of young people by exposing them to the grim reality of risky behaviour.

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Donated artwork brightens up RMH Emergency Department

11 May 2021

Mauricio Munoz first became known to the Royal Melbourne Hospital Emergency Department (ED) in 2013 after he was thrown off his bicycle after being hit by a truck.

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Special painting donated to healthcare workers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

28 April 2021

Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) patient, Naser Moradi, has donated a painting to the hospital to give thanks for those who looked after him during his stay at RMH in 2017.

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Dr Alistair Walpole

RMH perioperative shines a light on a different kind of ‘Bluey’ this Operation Clean Up Day

27 April 2021

A team of passionate sustainability champions have changed the way the RMH thinks of Bluey – not only an adorable dog, but a crucial piece of equipment contributing to unnecessary waste.

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How the Royal Melbourne Hospital navigated an Aged Care outbreak in the middle of Victoria’s second wave

24 March 2021

During the Covid-19 second-wave which faced Melbourne in July 2020, multiple aged care wards at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) were impacted by an outbreak that affected both staff and patients.

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Kate Drummond

RMH and University of Melbourne researchers awarded multi-million dollar grant to advance care for brain cancer survivors

23 March 2021

The Australian Government has awarded $2.6 million to researchers at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne for a project using the latest information technology to improve the lives of people who have survived brain cancer.

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RMH researcher receives Cancer Council Grant

15 March 2021

A study aiming to find the genetic link between familial bowel cancers, led by Inaugural Chair of Adult Clinical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital Professor Ingrid Winship, is one of 13 research projects that will share in $3.8 million from Cancer Council Victoria.

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Rapid COVID test evaluated at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

03 March 2021

Research by the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infectious Diseases and Immunity, published results for the validation study of rapid point-of-care antigen testing in the Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific.

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Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Professor Kirsty Buising named Moomba Monarch

02 March 2021

Lord Mayor Sally Capp today announced this year’s Moomba Monarchs are representatives of the unsung community heroes who have been working to keep us all safe during COVID-19.

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Up, up and away…mobile brain scans to transform urgent stroke care

26 February 2021

Work is underway to create world-first light, portable brain scanners so more Australians have rapid access to real-time stroke treatment. The radical approach will tackle the serious inequity of access to stroke care for rural and remote Australians. It is expected to dramatically reduce the risk of death and disability after a stroke.

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