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The Royal Melbourne Hospital continues to increase organ donors using best practice

15 November 2019

At a presentation of the Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement in Dubai, Emergency physician Dr Martin Dutch presented results on a training program changing lives.

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Alastair Royse and Richard Wynne

The Royal Melbourne Hospital first in Australia to roll out Butterfly ultrasound device

28 October 2019

A new light-weight portable ultrasound device is now being used at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH).

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Scott Morrison and Karen Andrews with Venetoclax researchers

Prime Minister’s Prize win for cancer drug discovery

17 October 2019

The Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Professor Andrew Roberts is one of four senior scientists to share the 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation.

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Dr Catherine Granger

Dr Catherine Granger awarded Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship

17 October 2019

RMH’s Dr Catherine Granger, Head of Physiotherapy Research has been awarded the Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship.

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RMH's Professor Karin Thursky awarded Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship

15 October 2019

Professor Karin Thursky, Co-Director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been awarded the Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship by the University of Melbourne.

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Melbourne Health's Monika Page and Brendan Ridley

Melbourne Health wins Premier's Sustainability Award 2019

11 October 2019

Melbourne Health has won the Health category in this year's Victorian Premier's Sustainability Awards for their program, Reducing Hunger and Food Waste in Our Community.

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Type1Screen diabetes screening program launches in Australia

10 October 2019

A national network of diabetes centres has just launched a program to identify children and young adults who are destined to develop Type 1 diabetes (T1D).

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Walking frame

RMH research shows that frail elderly patients have poor outcomes in critical illness

07 October 2019

Frail patients make up almost 40% of those aged 80 years or over in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units, and are more than twice as likely to die as non-frail patients, according to a Royal Melbourne Hospital and Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society-led research paper published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.

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Royal Melbourne Hospital performs 1000th live kidney transplant

04 October 2019

The transplant service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is one of the largest in the country and the first to reach 1000 live donor kidney transplants.

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Plastic model of a brain, interior view

RMH researchers take a closer look at the tangled web of Alzheimer’s

30 September 2019

A team of researchers from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Massachusetts General Hospital (United States) are working to understand factors that contribute to dementia.

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