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The Alfred is the home for clinical trials and translational health practice. Of all clinical trials happening in Australia, one in five occur on site at The Alfred. The Alfred does two thirds of all first-in-human clinical trials conducted in Australia. That's why, this World Clinical Trials Day, we are celebrating the researchers, partners and collaborators who choose to conduct their trials with Alfred Health. 

The stroke team at The Alfred is delighted to be the first in Victoria to receive Australian Stroke Coalition Stroke Unit Certification.

Each year, thousands of Australian women undergo invasive and life-altering hysterectomies to treat debilitating pain and blood loss caused by uterine fibroids. But there’s another option: a very safe, pin-hole procedure that cures the symptoms, yet leaves the uterus intact.

Two Alfred heart experts have today declared a new method of donor heart preservation a gamechanger for heart transplantation in Australia and New Zealand. 

In an Australian first, The Alfred Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is now home to a mobile computed tomography (CT) scanner. With no other ICU in the country using mobile CT, the installation of the machine in 2022 was the culmination of a six-year project to revolutionise the way ICU patients, especially those who need head CT scans, are cared for. Costing just more than $1 million to purchase and install, the project could never have been achieved without the $850,000 generously contributed by the community.

An innovative procedure being performed in The Alfred’s Heart Centre is giving new hope to patients suffering from a life-threatening condition. 

Prioritising at-risk patients for mpox (monkeypox) vaccination was a highly effective strategy at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre according to a recent study.

The devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires left a lasting impact on the lives of many Australians – and forever changed life at The Alfred.

A mobile CT scanner is being utilised at the bedsides of critically ill ICU patients for the first time in Australia, allowing specialists at The Alfred to quickly identify potentially life-threatening injuries in rapid time.

The Alfred is offering patients with antibiotic-resistant super bugs fresh hope with a unique therapy first discovered more than a century ago.