Cool Topics 2025: Listening to babies, learning from families
Australia’s leading neonatal conference returned to Melbourne last week, proudly hosted by the Royal Women’s Hospital. This year, Cool Topics shifted the spotlight from technology to humanity.
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Remembering lives lost from family violence in VictoriaOur hospital will light up purple this Wednesday night (5 May) alongside landmarks and monuments in Melbourne and across Victoria to remember the women and children who have died as a result of family violence.
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Associate Professor of Allied Health to lead improvement in women’s and neonatal healthA new joint role has been announced by the Melbourne School of Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, the Women’s and the Mercy Hospital for Women to help improve the lives of women and babies in Victoria.
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Endometriosis research now underway after $3.9m funding boostOur researchers are launching three projects in the coming days, part of a major new program of research aiming to improve the lives of women and girls with endometriosis and persistent pelvic pain.
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Kick-starting a new narrative for older womenA new Melbourne exhibition is celebrating the strength and beauty of older women and challenging negative stereotypes of aging with a varied program of arts and events at Abbotsford Convent.
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‘A lot has changed, but not quickly enough’Clinicians, advocates and pioneers from the Royal Women’s Hospital came together this week to engage in a panel discussion on the future of women’s health for International Women’s Day.
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Leading the conversation on the future of women’s healthcare in AustraliaKey issues in women’s healthcare will be discussed by clinicians, advocates and pioneers from the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne tomorrow (March 4) in a virtual broadcast for International Women’s Day.
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