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How individuals and communities can better deal with increasing rates of chronic illness in Australia will be the main focus of a health policy roundtable taking place at The Australian National University today.

ANU Chancellor Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top Global Thinkers of 2011.

Professor Carola Vinuesa from The Australian National University has won a new fellowship recognising Australia's top female medical and health researchers.

The United Nations conference on climate change in Durban should address outstanding issues about intellectual property or risk developing countries failing to meet mitigation targets, according to an IP expert from The Australian National University.

The rolling hills and sweeping steppes of Mongolia will seem closer to Australia with the launch of a new research and teaching centre at The Australian National University today.

People who fear the unknown or view uncertainty as especially negative or threatening are more likely to report symptoms of eating disorders, according to new ANU research. Alice Heikkonen, a PhD researcher in the Department of Psychology, has been looking at women aged 18-30 and has found a significant link between eating disorder symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty.

Older people who give up driving report positive life impacts and say it's not all doom and gloom, according to new research by PhD student Sarah Walker from The Australian National University.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young has congratulated the 203 researchers around the nation announced today as Future Fellows, particularly the 26 recipients from The Australian National University. The Future Fellowships program administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), aims to promote the best research in areas of national importance by giving grants to the country's best and brightest mid-career researchers.

Opening our native forests to the bioenergy market will be 'all pain for no gain', according to a leading Australian economist and forestry expert.

The rare eastern bettong ( Bettongia gaimardi ) has returned to the Australian mainland, after an absence of over 80 years.

Australia's first processing unit offering world-class facilities in the field of photonics has been opened at The Australian National University by Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr.

People with gambling problems are unlikely to identify as having a problem or to seek help unless they have experienced serious impacts or harms, according to new research released today. Tanya Davidson the Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at The Australian National University is one of the authors of two new reports profiling help-seeking and problem gambling in the ACT.

A major shift in thinking is needed for dealing with health equity issues in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report by the Global Action on Health Equity Network (HealthGAEN), co-founded by researchers at The Australian National University.

Evidence is mounting of an aggressive campaign by private providers to push hearing aids onto people who are not psychologically ready for them, according to an Australian National University sociology expert.

Moves to bring war crimes charges in Australia against the Sri Lankan President and High Commissioner face the significant challenge of proving to an Australian Court that serious war crimes can overrule diplomatic immunity, according to an ANU International Law expert.

The legacy of esteemed scientist Frank Fenner lives on in a new building opened at The Australian National University named in his honour.

The global trend towards using fluorescent globes instead of incandescent ones as a strategy to beat climate change could be increasing eye disease, according to new research by scientists at The Australian National University.

The mysterious behaviour of female Eclectus parrots killing their sons immediately after they hatch has been unravelled by a team of researchers from the Australian National University.

Indigenous children and those born overseas are less likely to have a regular family doctor than all other Australian children, according to a new report by researchers at The Australian National University Medical School.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young has congratulated all recipients of National Health and Medical Research grants, particularly the 18 winners from The Australian National University.

The Australian Foundation for Mental Health Research's (AFFIRM) Youth Ambassador Program has been officially launched by the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC at The Australian National University.

Three of the pillars of Thai society are under the spotlight in a new vodcast and podcast series titled ' Chat, Sasana, Phramahakasat : Nation, Religion, King'.

In a major boost for Indigenous health research, the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at The Australian National University has won $5 million in Commonwealth Government funding for two new Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) in primary health care.

The future of Internet use, Internet regulation and cyber security will be among the issues discussed at the Sixth Annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting this week, and The Aus

In 2008 Facebook use grew by an amazing 645 per cent in Indonesia, even though most users access the website through Internet cafes.

Lead author Professor David Stern from the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University worked with a team of researchers based at Oxford University and in Kenya to analyse trends in mean temperature and malaria cases across the region. He said there had been considerable controversy on whether climate change was occurring in East Africa and what the effects were on the incidence of malaria.

The threatened litigation by the tobacco industry against proposed plain packaging laws is part of a larger strategy of seeking to frustrate the regulation of tobacco advertising and branding, according to a leading intellectual property expert.

A team of researchers from The Australian National University has been selected from a competitive field to participate in NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Science Team.

The detection of gravitational waves has taken a leap forward with an announcement by researchers from the multi-national LIGO Scientific Collaboration, published today in specialist. The paper outlines how scientists used a quantum physics instrument, based on a design by The Australian National University, to squeeze light, which resulted in 50 per cent more accuracy from one of their interferometers.

The Gillard Government's move to amend legislation to allow offshore processing will require changes to both the Migration Act and the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act .