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Whiplash: who won’t get better. A new test reveals the problem cases.

11 August 2009

Most people recover from whiplash injuries within the first few months. However some people have long term pain – lasting months or years. Until now there has been no way of diagnosing these more severe cases.
New Brisbane research suggests that fat deposits in the neck muscles are the key.

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Fats trigger immune defence

14 August 2007

Synchrotron light delivers Nature paper for young scientist
Natalie Borg and colleagues from Monash and Melbourne universities have shown for the first time how the body’s immune defence system can be triggered by fats, sugars and other biological compounds, not just by proteins. The research, published recently in Nature, opens the way to potential new treatments [...]

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