Public and allied health

Researchers at the Australian Sports Brain Bank have reported the world’s first diagnosis of CTE in a female athlete.

Professor Massimo Hilliard and Dr Ramon Martinez-Marmol from the Queensland Brain Institute have explored how viruses alter the function of the nervous system.

UQ researchers have shown for the first time that some of the world’s most painful ant stings target nerves, like snake and scorpion venom.

Australia’s housing crisis is no secret. What many people don’t realise is that there’s another, less visible housing crisis. Australia’s urban cemeteries are running out of space.

What is ‘parental burnout’ and what can you do about it?

We all know that polluted air can make it harder to breathe, but did you know that it also makes it harder to think? Even work?

See how the award-winning team at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre is helping people speak to their loved ones again.

Many older people fear losing their driver’s licence and what it may mean for their independence, but UQ researchers hope a new fitness-to-drive assessment test will help end the confusion.

Our researchers breakdown the Queensland government's decision to accept in principle recommendations from a 2022 inquiry into the rights of donor-conceived people.

E-Dengue uses a prediction model to help local communities and health centres mitigate outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease in the Mekong Delta Region.