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The National Health and Medical Research Council is celebrating its ninth decade, and with an ageing population, rising chronic disease and evolving community needs, the role of research has never been more important.
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role → celebrate → research
Two pieces of ground-breaking research aimed largely at both ends of the human life span prove Australia’s research community produces world-leading work that strengthens the connection between research and practice while ensuring public investment translates into improving lives.
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investment → break → lives
Health reporter Rachel Rasker writes that Macquarie University’s Brain Institute and Clinic trialled the new drug in patients with isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder, a condition in which people act out their dreams, often vigorously and even violently, and which is among the strongest early alarm bells for the potential development of Parkinson’s disease.
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which → write → disease
In Melbourne, Wendy Tuohy reports the Royal Women’s Hospital has been chosen to trial a new drug that targets pre-eclampsia, the most common serious medical disorder of pregnancy.
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that → report → pregnancy
The drug, CBP4888, uses RNA technology to target and reduce the placenta’s overproduction of the protein that causes the mother’s blood pressure to spike and damages blood vessels, reducing blood flow to organs including kidneys, liver, and brain.
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pressure → use → kidneys
Pre-eclampsia can cause long-term cardiovascular damage, raise the risk of heart attack or stroke, kills one Australian woman a year and causes stillbirths and neo-natal deaths.
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eclampsia → cause → stillbirths
Australia has been chosen to trial the drug, invented by US group Comanche Biopharma, because local clinicians were the first in the world to measure levels of the protein.
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clinicians → choose → protein
Professor Shaun Brennecke, the hospital’s director of pregnancy research, has not seen any advances in treatment in 40 years of practice.
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Brennecke → see → practice
“I’ve spent my career focused on caring for women with pre-eclampsia and researching the subject, and this is the most important and dramatically significant event and trial that I’ve had the good fortune to be involved in,” he said.
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he → spend → fortune
They include our role in the development of penicillin as an antibiotic, and breakthroughs such as the bionic ear, greyscale ultrasound imaging, spray-on skin and the cervical cancer vaccine.
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They → include → ear
Sometimes the achievements in medical research become lost in the rancour and anger of debate surrounding Australia’s continued retreat from spending on research and innovation.
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achievements → lose → research
The Australian Health and Medical Research Workforce Audit estimated that more than 60 per cent of the nation’s research workforce left active research roles between 2019 and 2024.
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cent → estimate → 2019
There were reports this year that more than $1 billion of medical research funding remained undistributed due to a government spending cap.
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billion → be → cap
Despite all this, the drug trials aimed at Parkinson’s disease and pre-eclampsia are timely examples of how research advances knowledge about human health and leads to better health care while contributing to the Australian economy.
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research → aim → economy
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