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The Jreissati Pancreatic Centre’s Race to Earlier Cancer Diagnoses Pancreatic cancer, while relatively rare, is one of the most challenging and aggressive forms of cancer, too often developing silently and going undetected until it reaches an advanced stage. With a survival rate of just 13%, it is the 3rd-leading cause of cancer-related death in Australia,…

Breaking Barriers with the Baker Institute’s new AI-powered Chatbot What if artificial intelligence could help break down one of the biggest barriers in Australian healthcare? That’s the ambition behind a bold new project from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, who are enthusiastically jumping aboard the AI revolution in order to assist the 1.9 million…

Gamified Autism Education: Bringing WhizKid Games into the Mobile Age In 2024, one in 50 children in the first world were diagnosed with autism – a tripling since the turn of the century. Alongside this rise there has been a boom in gamified assistive technologies that help children on the autism spectrum communicate, learn, and…

CERA: Digitising Eye Disease Education Few are aware that the most common cause of blindness in working-aged Australians isn’t accident or age, but rather inherited eye diseases. Even fewer know that with treatment, the progression of many of these diseases can be halted well before blindness sets in. It’s this poor understanding of inherited retinal…