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• Retvic Research Reveals Retinal Scan Can Predict Cardiovascular Diseases

  - 2007-05-08

  Heart disease has been detected in children as young as seven and adults, thanks to a simple eye scan developed by RetVic's University of Melbourne researcher Professor Tien Wong. 35,000 people have been tested so far. In some instances the scans detected retinal changes associated with high blood pressure...

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• Companies urged to explain audit flips.

  - 2006-08-10

  Byline: Leon Gettler Aug 10, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Professor Ian Ramsay believes that Australian-listed companies should have to provide a reason for changing auditors. Professor Ramsay is the director of the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation...

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• Quit and stay slim.

  - 2006-03-21

  Byline: Michelle Pountney Mar 21, 2006 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne's Associate Professor Gary Anderson, in the pharmacology department, has researched smoking. ...

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• Thinner pay packets and fatter bodies: obesity hits the poor.

  - 2005-12-21

  Byline: Sasha Shtargot Dec 21, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne Associate Professor, Anne Kavanagh, has conducted research into obesity in Melbourne. Professor Kavanagh...

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• Top academics join the state's brain drain east.

  - 2005-12-19

  Byline: Sean Fewster Dec 19, 2005 (The Advertiser - ABIX via COMTEX) -- More must be done to stop the flow of academic talent from Adelaide, two of South ...

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• Humanities grants under ARC scrutiny.

  - 2003-09-16

  Sep 16, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Research Council ARC is to review government-funded projects in the university sector. Based on the review, the council will provide strategic advice to the Federal Government, said ARC executive director, Sue Rowley. It...

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• Scientists lured home by funds, opportunity.

  - 2001-09-01

  Sep 1, 2001 Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Professor Peter Doherty will return to Melbourne after receiving a Burnet Award. The Nobel Prize winner will continue his immunology work at the University of Melbourne. The five-year fellowship is worth $A400,000 per annum,...

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