Health/Medicine/Wellbeing
Wellbeing and lifestyle balance pays cricketing performance dividends
Top athletes talk about ‘flow’, a sense of being lost in the moment where everything just seems to come together for peak performance. But what does it take to find that sense of flow, and how do athletes’ commitment to their sport impact their lives? A pilot study by Macquarie University’s Professor John Sutton, Deputy Director of the Department of Cognitive Science and Associate P...
Helping close the gap in Indigenous communities
Young children from rural and remote Indigenous communities are making a more confident start to school life thanks to new early numeracy programs that not only enhance their learning, but build their confidence too. “I have a real interest in supporting quality early education and more specifically ‘Closing the Gap’ in numeracy achievement for Indigenous children, particularly in the...
When science meets philosophy: understanding the ethical implications of overdiagnosis
Macquarie University's Professor Wendy Rogers is taking a philosophical approach to the issue of overdiagnosis in the healthcare sector. Overdiagnosis refers to a range of healthcare activities or interventions that end up harming rather than helping patients. It can occur when the definitions of disease are widened, when harmless or clinically insignificant lesions are diagnosed or treated...
Biotech company relocates scientific headquarters to campus
Australian biotechnology company Minomic International Ltd has relocated its Australian scientific headquarters from Frenchs Forest to the Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University Hospital. The company is hoping to gain approval for its new prostate cancer screening technology later this year. “Our company has already conducted extensive trials of this technology ...
Macquarie’s Speech and Hearing Clinic receives Stewart House Gold Partner Award
An audiology support program from Macquarie University’s Speech and Hearing Clinic has been recognised with a gold partner award from children’s charity Stewart House. The program involves clinic staff and Master of Clinical Audiology students screening the hearing and middle ear function of children visiting Stewart House, and includes some of the most disadvantaged and at risk childre...
2014 Queens Birthday Honours
Companion of the Order of Australia Dr Megan Clark AC For eminent service to scientific research and development through fostering innovation, to science administration through strategic leadership roles, and to the development of public policy for technological sciences. The Honourable Barry Jones AC For eminent service to the community as a leading intellectual in Australian public life, t...