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Dr Prashant Bharadwaj's innovative research and work is paving the way for new treatments and offering hope to families affected by dementia.
The Guidelines for Guidelines Handbook is designed to help guideline developers produce high quality guidelines that meet the NHMRC Standards for Guidelines
The below resources are provided to support Investigator Grant peer reviewers.
NHMRC produces impact case studies to demonstrate its contribution to raising the standard of individual and public health throughout Australia.
Contact lenses provide improved vision for many people around the world, however when they were initially developed they could also impair eye health. The work of NHMRC-funded researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) led to significant positive impacts on eye care globally. These included the development of a much safer type of contact lens along with several other market-leading products, and advancing knowledge about contact lens-related infection and inflammation.
‘There has been a 73 per cent reduction in children hospitalised from severe chicken pox infection since the introduction of the (varicella) vaccine to the National Immunisation Program in Australia in 2005.'1
Associate Professor Leah Cosgrove and her team have developed a simple blood test to diagnose colorectal cancer. A reliable, non-invasive blood test could augment the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, either as an adjunct primary screen for those unable to do the stool test, or in triaging positive subjects to colonoscopy. This could help drive a significant reduction in colorectal cancer deaths in Australia.