News

“Take care”: message from doctors on National Road Safety week

16 May 2025

Trauma Consultant Dr Marian Biddle is likely one of the first people you’d encounter following a road accident and admission to The Alfred.

road safety

trauma

Alfred researcher honoured for reframing a “women’s issue”

9 May 2025

Alfred clinician-researcher Prof Catriona Bradshaw has been named in TIME100Health – an annual list of leaders shaping the future of health in 2025 by TIME Magazine. 

research & innovation

sexual health

‘Laughing gas’ to treat severe depression

7 May 2025

Researchers at The Alfred have opened the door to new avenues of research into the treatment of depression, after a clinical trial that used laughing gas to treat patients with severe depression had “beneficial and persistent antidepressant effects” on symptoms.

mental health

1000 Hearts: Eddie’s Story

5 May 2025

When Eddie Toh woke up in The Alfred’s ICU in late 2022, one month after a regular gym session, he had no idea how he’d got there or what was to come.

allied health

heart

New partnership to support mental health in the CBD

2 May 2025

A dual general health and mental health clinic, operated in partnership between Co-Health, The Salvation Army and The Alfred, will transform how some of Victoria's most vulnerable people access lifesaving health care.

mental health

Alfred Health launches Ngamai Wilam: a state-of-the-art residential eating disorder treatment centre

28 April 2025

Victoria’s first state-wide, publicly funded residential eating disorder treatment centre is getting ready to open, following completion of the impressive home’s build.

mental health

New, minimally invasive epilepsy surgery is changing lives

7 April 2025

The Alfred is the first hospital in Victoria and the second in Australia to offer a new and highly effective kind of brain surgery to treat previously ‘inoperable’ drug-resistant epilepsy.

epilepsy

neurosurgery

patients

New imaging technology cuts treatment times for patients

7 April 2025

Cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy at The Alfred are now experiencing shorter treatment times, thanks to the arrival of state-of-the-art imaging technology.

cancer

patients

radiation therapy

Gearing up for the Grand Prix

13 March 2025

As Formula 1 fever once again takes hold in Melbourne, one of Australia's leading trauma teams is standing by as the event’s official medical provider.

emergency & trauma

Partner treatment key to curing bacterial vaginosis

6 March 2025

Introducing the newest STI – and how to cure it.

infectious diseases

sexual health