Dr John McGhee from UNSW Art and Design is helping stroke patients at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital come to terms with their diagnosis using 3D techniques normally employed in the games industry.

A team of scientists from UNSW and Harvard are working towards what could be a prescription for a longer, healthier life. Professor David Sinclair and Dr Lindsay Wu take us through the science that could see us living past 100 years old in a healthy state. Professor Sinclair has been honoured as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.

The next generation of bionic ear technology is a step closer to reality, with researchers at UNSW Australia using the cochlear implant itself to deliver DNA to stimulate the regrowth of auditory nerve cells.

Children with respiratory problems until now have been faced with dragging around a large and unwieldy oxygen tank. But a new award-winning innovation by an Australian design student will change all that. Roam is a lightweight oxygen cylinder that was developed for a design project at UNSW Australia. It has since won two international design awards and received seed funding to get it into production.

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Jenny Liu's winning presentation in the 2011 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition - "Folate - getting the balance right for bowel cancer prevention".

Tyron Clayworth, a 3rd Year Medicine student, is taking a year to study at the Port Macquarie campus of the UNSW Rural Clinical School. UNSW has five Rural Clinical School campuses across N.S.W.

Children with a particularly lethal cancer could benefit from potentially life-saving treatment, following breakthrough work led by researchers at UNSW Australia.

A report by UNSW's Social Policy Research Centre has shown how providing stable housing for people with mental illness has reduced NSW hospitalisation rates by over 80% and saved  $30 million in hospital costs.

Australians at high risk of smoking, such as the mentally ill and prisoners are successful in giving up the habit if they're supported in complying with treatment regimes according to UNSW's Professor Robyn Richmond.

Scientists at UNSW's School of Biomedical Engineering have discovered what speeds up the healing process

The virtual medical classroom has come alive with the launch of Smart Sparrow, adaptive e-learning technology developed at UNSW that takes the patient - and the teacher - to the student.

Rick Christie, cancer survivor and founder of Ride for Life, has committed to giving The NSW Cancer Survivors Centre at UNSW around $50,000 per year for the next five years.

Dr Bernadette Tobin argues that the challenges for stem cell research are derived from flaws in the thinking of both researchers and would-be patients.

myCompass is a ground-breaking e-health initiative, designed to provide self-help tools for common mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and stress and to assist in the promotion of mental health and well-being.

Simple electronic tools like mobile phone apps are being developed to improve health care delivery following the CareTrack Australia study which has revealed some serious shortfalls in medical best practice in Australia.

Dr Stuart Smith is adapting popular video games for elderly and disabled patients keep active.

Urban agriculture of the community kind is on the rise, but UNSW research suggests the health benefits go way beyond what ends up on the dinner table.

Researchers from UNSW's School of Psychiatry and The Black Dog Institute are trialling ketamine in people with severe depression.

UNSW's Year 12 Medicine Information Evening provides prospective students with an overview of the undergraduate medicine degree, application process, UMAT preparation tips and helpful myth busting.

By 2050 more than twice as many of us will be living in cities. While urban agriculture of the community kind is on the rise, commercial urban farms are under threat.

An ageing population that hugely taxes the health system s in developed countries and dire poverty-related illness in the developing world. That's the frightening scenario that faces us as the global population reaches 7 Billion.

UNSW's Prof Stephen Dain provides some tips on the best ways to protect your eyes from ultraviolet rays and why big price tags don;t necessarily mean best protection.

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Ita Buttrose AO OBE facilitates this event featuring three pioneering scientists who are globally renowned speakers and command enormous respect in their fields - Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, Professor David Sinclair and Professor Henry Brodaty AO.