A new study shows that vitamin C can help heal chronic foot ulcers and prevent the need for amputation.
Western Sydney University, CSIRO and the University of Sydney have all made significant commitments to the Westmead Health Precinct, while research capacity is also growing rapidly at Blacktown, Auburn and Mount Druitt.
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For the first time in Australia, researchers at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR), along with their clinical colleagues at Westmead Hospital, have performed normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) on donated kidneys. Now, as part of a clinical trial, kidneys treated with NMP have been successfully transplanted into patients.
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With COVID-19 dominating medical science and human concern, our chemists have developed a method to quickly and safely synthesise protein vaccines for respiratory diseases for pre-clinical tests.
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