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Powerful research partnerships

NSW Health Pathology values the power of collaboration that comes from our university partnerships. Research and innovation spark from new ideas and fresh perspectives.   We are passionate about fostering close networks and working relationships with the next generation of scientists.   With so much to learn from each other the student-supervisor dynamic benefits everyone.…

Leading the way in VWD diagnosis

Dr Emmanuel Favaloro’s passion and expertise lie in bleeding disorder diagnosis and better patient care.   People with these disorders bleed excessively.  With up to 1% of the world’s population potentially suffering from von Willebrand disease (VWD) according to epidemiological studies, it is considered by far to be the most common bleeding disorder. However, since…

A mycologist’s view on the fungi in The Last of Us

The blockbuster TV show The Last of Us has raised the prospect of a devastating fungal pandemic, where humans are infected by a brain controlling Cordyceps fungus. We ask one of our mycologists what fungi we should be worried about. A brain controlling fungus that has adapted to climate change to infect humans, plunging the…

Sentinel chickens provide early warning on deadly diseases

Dotted around a handful of backyards and on farms in regional New South Wales are special flocks of chickens that play a key role in helping NSW Health Pathology protect the community from serious diseases. They are known as ‘sentinel chickens’ and since the 1970s they have been used to give us an early warning…

Exploring AI’s powerful role in pathology

In Associate Professor Ewan Millar’s vision for the future of pathology in NSW, the skills, experience and expertise of Anatomical Pathologists is backed by powerful technology. In the near future, Anatomical Pathologists - doctors who study body tissue and cells to diagnose diseases like cancer - will scrutinise digital slides rather than traditional glass slides…

Boosting diabetes prevention

Samoan peo­ple are at high­er risk of dia­betes and often expe­ri­ence avoid­able com­pli­ca­tions that can be fatal. NSW Health Pathol­o­gy is part­ner­ing with West­ern Syd­ney Uni­ver­si­ty on a dia­betes pre­ven­tion and man­age­ment pro­gram for Aus­tralian-Samoan com­mu­ni­ties in South West­ern Sydney.

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