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PhD student Carmen Lim from UQ's National Centre For Youth Substance Use Research featured in an InQueensland article discussing the growth in cannabis vaping amongst teenagers. 

Improving health and economic costs after road traffic injuries is the focus of a new University of Queensland-led Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) awarded $2.5 million by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

PhD student Carmen Lim from UQ's National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research spoke to CNN about a new study which has found marijuana vaping by school-aged youth doubled between 2013 and 2020. 

Cardiometabolic health is found to worsen in the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood, a University of Queensland study has found.

Young adults’ attitudes towards food and health can be sorted into six unique lifestyle profiles, University of Queensland research has found

More than 100 global experts have slammed the World Health Organisation for a stubborn anti-vaping stance that is contributing to “millions” of avoidable smoking-related deaths.

Professor Simon Byrne from UQ's School of Psychology spoke with ABC Radio Mornings about the new study coaching parents in exposure therapy to help their shy children have more confidence. 

Professor Jochen Mueller from UQ's Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences spoke with the Daily Telegraph about a co-study with CSIRO which discovered traces of COVID-19 through wastewater testing. 

Researchers from The University of Queensland and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have found SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater samples from long haul flights of returning Aussies, proving they can detect it before passengers show symptoms.

Getting shy children to ‘face their fears’ and coaching parents in exposure therapy is the focus of a new study at The University of Queensland.