Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
By Stuckey • March 27th, 2020
At The Keogh Institute our prime concern is your health in this climate of the Covid 19 pandemic. Therefore, our specialist endocrinologists will cease face-to-face consultations for the time being and will consult with you by phone, FaceTime or Skype. We will try to phone you at the allotted time for your consult. If we are running behind please be patient. We will ring you. They will have access to your results as normal and any request forms or prescriptions will be posted out to you. Our Clinic Nurse in Charge, Peta Redfern, will field your clinical enquiries as usual […]
Filed under: Diabetes, Fertility, Men's health, Osteoporosis, PCOS, Research, sexual health, Staff, Uncategorized, Women's Health
By Stuckey • September 20th, 2016
Losing weight may improve your sex life and not just by making you look sexier. Professor Bronwyn Stuckey, medical director at the Keogh Institute, has published a new study indicating that for men, losing weight improves sexual functioning regardless of the dietary method used. The study found that overweight and obese men increased both their overall sexual functioning and their testosterone levels when they lost weight due to being placed on an energy restricted diet. Men on the study lost weight via either a high protein, low fat diet or a high carbohydrate, low fat diet and there results did […]
Filed under: Diabetes, Men's health, Research
By Stuckey • April 13th, 2016
We are pleased to announce that we were selected as the community favorite for the Grill’d Community Matters contest in March. We will be using this money to help support our osteoporosis and PCOS research projects. Thanks to everyone who voted.
Filed under: Research
By Stuckey • January 20th, 2016
You may have seen the news that a clinical trial participant in France has died and that 4 others were hospitalised. This is obviously a terrible event, our understanding is it was unexpected and authorities are working to determine if there was any wrongdoing. The question on many of our patient’s minds may be was this an isolated event or are clinical trials inherently unsafe? The answer is a bit of both. Events such as what happened in France are rare. Such an event had never before happened in France and worldwide the last similar incident was 9 years ago. However […]
Filed under: Tags: clinical trials, research
Research
By Stuckey • October 7th, 2015
Preliminary findings from the Keogh Institute’s study into osteoporosis and coeliac disease have been presented at the Australasian Menopause Society’s 2015 conference. The study has reaffirmed that coeliac disease can act silently and present via other medical conditions. Although it is considered that people with coeliac disease should be presented via gastric symptoms, our study found this not to be the case. In fact, nearly half of our participants with coeliac disease did not recognise any symptoms prior to diagnosis. When coeliac disease continues untreated damage occurs to the digestive system which prevents nutrients from being absorbed. This chronic malabsorption can result in a […]
Filed under: Tags: coeliac disease, osteoporosis, research
Osteoporosis, Research, Women's Health
By Stuckey • May 10th, 2015
Researchers at the Keogh Institute for Medical Research are looking for volunteers to help them explore the link between coeliac disease and osteoporosis. People with coeliac disease are known to be at increased risk of osteoporosis due to their poor absorption of nutrients. There is little known however about the effect of coeliac disease on osteoporosis and its treatments once it has developed. This may mean that people with osteoporosis and coeliac disease are being given inappropriate treatments or that their bones continue to deteriorate despite treatment. To help to fill this gap, the Keogh Institute is doing a survey […]
Filed under: Tags: osteoporosis, research, treatment
Osteoporosis, Research
