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Griffith's Health Group is one of the fastest growing in the country. The University is establishing a health knowledge hub on the Gold Coast, which will be focused on service delivery, teaching and research and link to the new Gold Coast University Hospital.
The Griffith Institute for Health and Medical Research brings together clinical researchers and scientists working on some of the world's most important health research areas such as cancer, heart disease, population trends, psychology and diabetes. The Institute focuses on innovations in the delivery of health care and promotes early intervention and prevention of diseases and disorders within the community.
Griffith's Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention is helping to prevent suicides in affiliation with World Health Organisation.
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Preventing suicide in low to middle-income countries
An international study of almost 2,000 people in Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and China has shown that a low cost strategy to keep in contact with people who have previously attempted suicide, can reduce the risk of subsequent suicides. Given that suicide is among the top three causes of deaths in 15 to 34-year-olds, the strategy has the potential to help reduce the economic and societal loss of young people in their most productive years of life. The study, co-authored by the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention director Professor Diego De Leo, said subsequent suicide deaths reduced...
Vitamin B and folate fight migraine
Griffith University researchers have recently concluded a clinical trial showing inexpensive supplements help migraine sufferers. Griffith’s Genomics Research Centre (GRC) Director Professor Lyn Griffiths said the trial had shown that folate and vitamin B helped to significantly reduce frequency, severity and disability of the disorder. “The trial provided vitamin B supplements and folic acid to more than 50 long-term migraine sufferers for six months,” Professor Griffiths said. “Results showed a drastic improvement in headache frequency, pain severity and associated disability for those treated.” Previous studies by the GRC identified a gene, known as MTHFR, which makes people susceptible to migraine...
Take-off time for travellers to test popular herbal remedy
Long-haul travellers are invited to help determine whether the herbal medicine Echinacea can prevent respiratory and other symptoms associated with international air travel. Echinacea is currently the most widely used herb for the prevention of the common cold and to reduce the duration and severity of its symptoms. Dr Evelin Tiralongo, a senior lecturer in Griffith’s School of Pharmacy, said there was considerable scientific evidence for its use as an early treatment of the symptoms of the common cold. However further research was necessary for the product to extend its claims. Dr Tiralongo, who has a particular clinical and research...
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