News and Events
Media Releases
- Gym Programs Bring Benefits (Oct 21, 2009)
- Our makeover stars - How they have changes - and you can too (Feb 4, 2009)
- Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia has awarded funding of $244,000 to ECU
- Is your child resistant to exercise (March 21, 2007)
- Press Release: Radical Approach to Childhood Obesity (January 22, 2007)
- The West Australian Newspaper - Stayin' Alive (June 14, 2006)
- The West Australian Newspaper - Never too old to Keep Fit. (June 14, 2006)
- Channel 7 - Telstra Kids Study. Recorded April 4, 2006
News
- ECU
Associate Professor in the American College
of Sports Medicine Consensus Statement
on Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors
The Director of the Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute Associate Professor Daniel Galvão, was a member of the influential American College of Sports Medicine Writing Committee’s Expert Panel for the Consensus Statement on Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors. The consensus statement will be the guideline for all exercise assessment, and prescription for cancer management in North America and much of the World.
The Statement can be assessed through Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (ERA A* Ranking Journal) at http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/pages/currenttoc.aspx
Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute has previously published the National Position Statement for Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) in 2009 with Professor Robert Newton and Associate Professor Daniel Galvão. - Stay
on your feet: Learn more about managing
your health
Wednesday 16th September.
Please choose one of the following times for your workshop:
1.00pm - 2.30pm or 4.30pm - 6.00pm
Vario Wellness Clinic,
Building 21 Room 304.
Edith Cowan University,
Joondalup Drive, Joondalup
The Vario Wellness Clinic will be carrying out a workshop to include a presentation by an Exercise Physiologist and Nutritionist on steps to promote an active lifestyle and manage your health, along with a cooking demonstration and tastings. This is a free event but numbers are limited. For more information please contact 6304 3444 - Professor Robert Newton and Dr. Daniel
Galvão from the Edith Cowan University
Health and Wellness Institute have been granted
$500,000 in the latest round of funding from
the National Health and Medical Research
Council.
The project is titled A Phase III clinical trial of exercise modalities on treatment side-effects in men receiving therapy for prostate cancer.
Their study aims to reduce the adverse side effects of prostate cancer treatment through the prescription of exercise.
The study will involve 195 men in the Perth, Bunbury and Brisbane areas over twelve months.
Presentations
- Research Week 16-20 August, 2010
Seminar: Exercise as Medicine
Presenter: Dr Prue Cormie
Date: Monday 16 August
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Register your interest at http://www.ecu.edu.au/students/events/list.php by 13 August 2010 - Exercise
for the Prevention and Management
of Dementia
Dementia Networking Workshop
February 2008
Presenter: Professor Robert Newton - Exercised Management of Chronic Disease
- Flexilecture/Live Presentations
