News - Menzies

Preventing infant wheeze and childhood asthma

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May 21, 2021 - 09:22am

A new $1.6 million Australian-UK world-first project aimed at preventing wheeze in preschool children and potentially asthma in later childhood by using an orally administered bacteria lysate to boost immune systems has been announced.
Retail Pharmacy | What's app-ening with my lungs?

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January 15, 2021 - 11:00am

Learning about healthy lungs has just become a lot easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and health practitioners thanks to an expanded interactive app.
NT News | Lung health app

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January 15, 2021 - 02:00am

Developed by the Menzies School of Health Research, the Lung Health for Kids app originally contained information on asthma but now includes the conditions bronchiolitis, pneumonia and bronchiectasis
What’s app-ening with my lungs?

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January 14, 2021 - 09:22am

Learning about healthy lungs has just become a lot easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and health practitioners thanks to an expanded interactive app.
Menzies app improving asthma management in communities

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July 16, 2020 - 11:00am

Education around asthma has gone mobile with Menzies School of Health Research’s Child Health Division developing an interactive app targeted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
NT News | Asthma app clears air on cure

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June 19, 2020 - 02:00am

Report on asthma app launch with Dr Gabrielle McCallum.
Media Release | Improving knowledge and understanding of asthma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families online

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June 17, 2020 - 10:30am

Learning about asthma has just become a lot easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and health practitioners thanks to a new interactive app
Better child lung health

Indigenous children living in remote communities with chest and lung conditions are a key priority for our child health respiratory team. To identify what can be done to improve their lung health and how their respiratory conditions can be better managed, the team extended previous...
ABC online | Research targeting asthma and smoking

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August 04, 2017 - 08:00am

Indigenous smoking rates: Older kids a new tool to break cycle in Northern Territory. By Nancy Notzon. Senior research fellow Dr Gabrielle McCallum | A trial targeting improved asthma outcomes and creating an environment where it's cool not to take up smoking.
ABC TV coverage of lung capacity study collaboration

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June 25, 2017 - 19:00pm

Menzies have been out and about at the Northern Territory Rugby League Junior fixtures, measuring lung function in healthy young people. The study measures two types of lung function tests in healthy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young adults, to find the best range of healthy results. Which in turn will be used to help diagnose lung problems such as asthma. Dr Gabrielle McCallum manager of our Child Health Respiratory Program teamed up with with Queensland University of Technology PhD student Tamara Blake.
$25k grant boosts lung researcher

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December 02, 2015 - 08:00am

A HEALTH researcher who is tackling some of the world's highest rates of respiratory disease in Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory has won a $25,000 national grant.
2015 Emerging Health Researcher Award winner announced

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November 19, 2015 - 13:37pm

An inspiring health researcher working to identify ways to improve health outcomes in Indigenous communities has been named the Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Health Researcher of the Year.
Researcher tackles NT respiratory disease

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October 19, 2015 - 09:42am

A health researcher who is tackling some of the world's highest rates of respiratory disease in indigenous children in the Northern Territory has won a $25,000 national grant to further her fight.
Pioneering asthma education program and research in Darwin schools

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February 28, 2014 - 10:30am

An innovative asthma awareness and self-management program with tobacco uptake prevention funded by Asthma Australia’s National Research Program is being introduced to school students in Darwin.
New talking posters to tackle chronic cough in Indigenous communities

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April 29, 2013 - 12:00pm

The launch of a series of flipcharts and talking posters will help to address factors that lead to chronic respiratory illness in remote Indigenous children and adults.
My story: Gabrielle McCallum, nurse and PhD candidate

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October 03, 2012 - 12:00pm

Meet our winner of the 2012 NT Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Award for ‘Education, Research and Innovation’.

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