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Retrosigmoid facial nerve microvascular decompression is standard treatment for hemifacial spasm. Manifesting as facial twitching on one side of the face, the condition is caused by blood vessel pressing on the facial nerve. A similar (and much more commo...

“Dr Barker is the nicest man I have ever met,” says Carol Wardell, who was selected for the Access program in 2019. “He said to me: ‘at your age why wouldn’t you want to look good!’” Wardell has had operations thr...

Back pain is the number one cause of disability globally but doesn’t get the attention or funding it deserves, says Professor Hancock. That gap is one of the main motivations for his research. With about 30 other international back pain researchers,...

From a young age, Bridget Dean played sport which lead her to competing in Oztag, hockey and athletics at international, national and representative level. Her love of sport motivated her to train as a high school PE teacher, and while she was teaching, s...

MQ Health interventional pulmonologist Professor Alvin Ing performed Australia’s first bronchoscopic thermal vapour ablation (BTVA) procedure in a clinical setting at Macquarie University Hospital in 2019. BTVA is a recently developed method of endo...