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The eleven-floor Griffith Health building will be completed in 2013, opening the doors to an interdisciplinary learning environment that will also give students the opportunity to use facilities at the new Gold Coast University Hospital across the road. The $1.76 billion hospital and health centre will reinforce teaching and research collaborations between Griffith and the […]

A human dietary intervention trial conducted by Medical Laboratory Science Program researcher Abishek Santha Kumar is expected to show that natural antioxidant compounds found in the Queen Garnet Plum may have the potential to complement anti-clotting drugs such as aspirin. “We already know that increased platelet activity in the blood increases the risk of cardiovascular […]

The Gold Coast is moving up the ladder of Asian golf’s major centres after Griffith snares the right to host the 2014 World Scientific Conference on Golf (WSCG). The event, set to be held at the Gold Coast’s Royal Pines Resort has previously been held every four years at either St Andrews in Scotland or […]

The Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO, will officially launch the first National Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised Patients at Griffith University’s South Bank campus tomorrow(April 20). With $2.5 million funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and an initial five-year program of research focus on skin integrity and […]

Griffith Health’s expansion on the Gold Coast is continuing to draw significant international research projects, including the latest global collaboration using stem cell technology. The OraSTEM project is investigating orofacial (mouth and face) complications from cancer therapy using stem cell transplantation. It is being conducted in Europe, North America and Australia and being led by […]

A twin-pronged research project into childhood phobias is underway at the Griffith Health Institute. Researchers at the Gold Coast and in Brisbane are seeking the participation of 140 children, aged between seven and 17, for a study which aims to develop new and effective treatments of children’s deepest fears. “If your child is afraid of […]

Up to 20 per cent of people who have heart attacks also have to deal with depression afterwards, and many never know. This is one of the links between the heart and mind being explored in an important new research project at Griffith University. Dr Chris Stapelberg from the School of Applied Psychology needs 120 […]