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Wishing you safe and happy holidays, from Alfred Health.

A new headspace centre in Syndal will expand Alfred Health’s support for young people experiencing mental health challenges.

Alfred Health will continue providing care to returned travellers as a health partner in the state’s revamped mandatory quarantine program. 

Researchers at The Alfred are hoping to break down the barriers people living with HIV encounter when it comes to undergoing solid organ transplantation.

This year, the Victorian Melanoma Service (VMS) at The Alfred has seen a significant drop in referrals. But cases of melanoma have not dropped – prompting specialists to urge all Victorians to act now before it’s too late.

This year, 22-year-old Demi Lawson has not only faced a global pandemic, but a diagnosis of brain cancer, an awake craniotomy (brain surgery) – and has been learning to live with the death of her younger brother.

While Victoria’s second COVID-19 wave appears to be coming to an end, experts at The Alfred’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) warn that the mental health battle is only beginning.

Doctors at The Alfred are hoping to provide Bacchus Marsh teenager Connor Manning with long awaited answers to his seizures.

Between April and June this year, notifications of breast cancers decreased almost forty percent. Head of our breast surgery unit Dr Melanie Walker said, the COVID-19 restrictions should not be deterring people from seeing their GP for a breast examination if they have symptoms or concerns.  

One of Alfred Health’s leading physician-scientists has been recognised for his ground-breaking work in the area of infectious diseases.