Stories
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Conflicted and confused about lithium
Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
Catalogue
- Books
Health and medical research : public opinion poll 2003 / Research Australia.
Date: 2003- Journals
Collected papers / Commonwealth of Australia. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Animal Research Laboratories. Division of Animal Genetics, Division of Animal Health, Division of Animal Physiology.
- Archives and manuscripts
Pregnancy Worldwide Research Files: "Australia"
Date: 2003-2007Reference: PP/KZR/E/8/2Part of: The archive of Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015)- Books
- Online
Australian code for the responsible conduct of research : revision of the Joint NHMRC/AVCC Statement and Guidelines On Research Practice / Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, Universities Australia.
AustraliaDate: [2007]- Journals
Bulletin / Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia.
Date: 1949-