Associate Professor Louis Irving

Clinical Director Lung Health Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne; Respiratory Physician, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director of Clinical Training, Royal Melbourne Hospital

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Health & Medicine

Childcare centres and car exhaust: A dangerous mix

New research finds that many inner Melbourne childcare centres are built close to busy roads, putting children near dangerous vehicle exhaust and highlighting the need for buffer zones

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Health & Medicine

Putting the brakes on lung disease

Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that can be blocked to potentially prevent the destructive inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a major worldwide killer

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Health & Medicine

New medicine for an old disease

The re-emergence of Black Lung disease among Australian coal miners is raising urgent questions on prevention, screening and treatment that need answering

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