| Date |
Media Release |
| 5 December 2008 |
Helping South Australians to Measure Up
Staff at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are leading the way in a major push to improve the health of South Australians.
During December, the RAH Health Promotion team are conducting a range of activities and events aimed at improving the public’s knowledge of healthy eating and the value of exercise in fighting cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
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| 13 October 2008 |
Forum - Avoiding the downside of diving
Every week many South Australian divers take to the water, largely without thought to the health risks associated with their exciting sport. To better inform divers, the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Hyperbaric Medicine Unit has invited two world experts on diving medicine to present at a special forum to discuss how to stay safe and healthy while ‘down under’. For further details click on the following link.
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| 24 September 2008 |
RAH Get Active Week 2008
This Friday, Royal Adelaide Hospital staff will join forces with SA sporting stars to step up and ‘get active’ as part of the hospital’s annual Get Active Week.
The Royal Adelaide Hospital Helipad Stair Climb will kick off from 11.30am on Friday 26 September, with more than 150 staff and sporting stars vying for the title of 2008 Stair Climb Champion, including Adelaide United soccer players and North Adelaide footballers.
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| 16 September 2008 |
Brain Injury Awareness Week 2008
Former clients of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (BIRU) will gather at Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre tomorrow (17/9/08) to share some amazing stories of recovery from acquired brain injury.
As part of Brain Injury Awareness Week, former BIRU clients will present to both staff who assisted their early rehabilitation and recovery, as well as staff keen to learn about the achievements of clients who have moved on after leaving hospital care.
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| 3 September 2008 |
RAH Sleep Study - volunteers needed!
Do you yawn your way listlessly through each day? Go to bed each night dreading hours of tossing and turning? Wake up after a few hours of broken sleep to face a day-long battle with exhaustion?
If this sounds like you, then the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) Sleep Study Laboratory wants to hear all about it!
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| 28 August 2008 |
RAH Launches the Homeless Action Plan
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is leading a major new project to provide better health services for homeless people in the inner city.
The hospital is working with a range of government and non-government agencies that support homeless people to develop the Care of the Homeless Action Plan, which aims to meet the complex needs of these patients both within and beyond the walls of the hospital.
The Care of the Homeless Action Plan was officially launched by Monsignor David Cappo, South Australia’s Commissioner for Social Inclusion, on Thursday 31 July at 10am in the Royal Adelaide Hospital foyer.
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| 16 November 2007 |
Worlds Top Cancer Researchers converge in Adelaide
The "Science amongst the Vines" conference was held in the Barossa Valley on 13-16 November 2007, bringing together the worlds best scientists and researchers.
This year’s theme is ‘Signalling Systems’. The 3-day conference was also the forum at which the Clifford Prize for Cancer Research was awarded.
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| 2 November 2007 |
RAH Memorial Service - Sunday 4 November 2007 at 3.00pm
A Memorial Service for families, relatives and friends of loved ones who have passed away at Royal Adelaide Hospital, will be held on:
Sunday 4th November at 3pm in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Chapel.
This Memorial Service provides an opportunity for those who have lost a loved one, family member or friend to:
• Honour and give thanks to their life with us
• Light a candle
• Move on in the grieving process.
Enquiries should be directed to the hospital chaplains on (08) 8222 5477.
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| 22 October 2007 |
$21 Million in Grants Awarded to the Hanson Institute
Scientists of the Hanson Institute at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS) have been successful in attracting $21 million in research funds, which will be dedicated to research in areas including; obesity, neuroscience, genetics, asthma, inflammation, leukaemia, cardiology, rheumatology, haematology and tissue pathology.
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| 10 October 2007 |
75 Years of Neurosurgery - Friday 12 October 2007
The Royal Adelaide Hospital Neurosurgery Department will celebrate 75 Years of Neurosurgery on Friday 12 October, commencing at 9am, in the Robson Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital.
The event is open to the general public and past or present staff members and will include an exhibition and presentation highlighting the history, present activities and future directions of Neurosurgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital.
For further information please contact Carolyn on 8222 5232.
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| 24 August 2007 |
Professor Tim Hughes receives 2007 SA Science Excellence Award
Professor Tim Hughes from the Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science and Royal Adelaide Hospital has been awarded the 'Excellence in Research for Public Good Outcomes' at the 2007 Science Excellence Awards.
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| 29 July 2007 |
Hanson Institute Annual General Meeting
The Hanson Institute invites members of the community and interested professionals to attend the Annual General Meeting on Monday 30 July 2007.
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| 9 May 2007 |
RAH Public Health Seminar June 2007
To celebrate International Men’s Health Week, the RAH will present a seminar “Too hot to handle? Reducing the risk of burns to you and your family” on Wednesday 13 June from 7.00 - 9.00pm. SPEAKERS: Dr John Greenwood AM, Medical Director, RAH Burns Unit and Mike Atkins, Fire Safety Officer, RAH
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| 11 April 2007 |
RAH Week 2007 Program
RAH week will be celebrated from Monday 16 to Friday 20 April 2007. There will be displays in the main entrance foyer showcasing many of the hospital's departments. Special tours of the hospital will take place on Tuesday 17 April from 9.30 - 11.30am. So come along and celebrate with us.
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| 14 February 2007 |
RAH Public Health Seminars March 2007
Professor George Vaillant, Visitng Professor at the University of Melbourne, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital will share his own wisdom and insights about the human condition in sickness and in health.
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| 30 January 2007 |
Phil Herreen awarded Senior Australian of the Year
Royal Adelaide Hospital and colleagues of Mr Phillip Herreen congratulate him on his well deserved recognition as Senior Australian of the Year.
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| 10 October 2006 |
The Good Sleep Guide
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is conducting a public health seminar titled, The Good Sleep Guide - Everything you wanted to know about sleeping well.
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| 8 June 2006 |
Life saving Treatment launched at RAH
A Revolutionary treatment that targets a deadly heart condition affecting hundreds of thousands of Australians is being pioneered at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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| 20 April 2006 |
Hanson Institute Centre for Bone and Joint Research opens
South Australia's renowned medical research facility, the Hanson Institute, today opened a new centre for research into the prevention, treatment and cure of disease associated with bone and joints.
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| 28 March 2006 |
New equipment at RAH to target cancer
A new state-of-the-art linear accelerator to treat cancer is being commissioned today at the
Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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