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Giving back

8 March 2019

So grateful was one family for the care of their son that they generously gifted our Tartan About fundraising team enough to achieve their target sum.

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staff

the alfred foundation

Statewide pharmacy service for Voluntary Assisted Dying

27 February 2019

The pharmacy service to support Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 will be based at The Alfred.

pharmacy

Phase I of peanut trial shows promising results

26 February 2019

The Phase I trial of a world-first peanut allergy immunotherapy has shown positive results, researchers have revealed.

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research & innovation

Celebrating 50 years of sleep

25 February 2019

Experts are calling this the 'century of sleep loss' but sleep has come under close scrutiny at The Alfred in the last 50 years. 

sleep

Remembering Black Saturday - 10 years on

6 February 2019

Black Saturday is a day most Victorians will never forget.

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patients

Nutrition support when food is not enough

5 February 2019

For more than five years, Marjorie “Mardi” Carter has relied on a feeding tube into her small bowel to receive all her nutrition, after treatment for oesophageal and breast cancer left her unable to eat and drink enough. 

patients

Lee warns: be careful when playing with fire

25 January 2019

Lee Elliott, winner of The Bachelorette 2016, is urging everyone to be careful with fire after seriously burning his hand on New Year's Eve. 

burns

patients

Older Victorians warned about life-threatening heatstroke

23 January 2019

As Victorians continue to sweat through hot summer days, some people in our community are more vulnerable to heat-related illness. These include people over the age of 65, young children and people with certain pre-existing medical condition.

aged care

Injured divers rely on hyperbaric medicine service

27 December 2018

While diving with his family in New Caledonia in October, 24-year-old Liam Mangan-Smith ran out of air at 16 metres below the surface.

Take care this holiday season

21 December 2018

The Alfred emergency team is ramping up for the festive season – after last year’s holiday period saw a spike in road trauma injuries, falls and alcohol-related presentations to the Emergency Department (ED).

emergency & trauma