New drug candidate to be trialed for most lethal form of brain cancer
A new drug candidate has been discovered by the University of South Australia (UniSA) to treat the most lethal form of brain cancer - glioblastoma - which kills 95 per cent of patients within five years.
Initial data of the experimental drug, Auceliciclib, in animal models suggest it could offer a new treatment for glioblastoma as there is currently no cure.
Head of Drug Discovery and Development at UniSA, Professor Shudong Wang, says that brain cancer is particularly challenging to treat because very few drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and those that do cause serious side effects.
University of Adelaide, UniSA merger proposal failed after uncertainty over name and leadership
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The University of South Australia and University of Adelaide have campuses alongside one another.
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Documents obtained by the ABC shed new light on secret but failed negotiations to merge South Australia s two largest universities, showing top officials disagreed over what to name the institution and how to choose its leaders.
Key points:
The University of Adelaide and UniSA refused to go into detail when their merger talks failed in 2018
Leadership and a name for the merged institution were key sticking points, documents show
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IMAGE: Royal Flying Doctor Service personnel undertook 17,000 retrievals in remote areas of Australia in the first half of 2020. view more
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New data released this week by Australian researchers reveals the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown period on aeromedical retrievals in rural and remote regions.
Researchers say while the social isolation measures led to a reduction in overall aeromedical activity during the lockdown in 2020, once the restrictions were lifted, evacuations increased significantly.
These findings are published in the
Internal Medicine Journal, comparing aeromedical evacuation trends in Australia during the pre-restriction, lockdown and post-restriction periods last year.
2:51 PM MYT CANBERRA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) An Australian study has found that survivors of child abuse are more than twice as likely to die young. Researchers said the study, which was published by the University of South Australia (UniSA) on Monday, marked the first time in the world that they had examined the impact of child mistreatment on the risk of death during adolescence and early adulthood. It focused on the lives of 331,000 young South Australians, of whom one in five had some contact with Child Protective Services. Of that group 980 died between the ages of 16 and 33. Deaths from alcohol, poisonings, other substances or where mental health was a factor, were five times more likely among those who were mistreated compared to those who were not, and suicide was three times more likely.