Medicine
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How the making of Brett Sutton got him through pandemic and kept Premier’s faith
It was 10 days of grinding physical exercise as they traversed the top of the world. The trail ran through…
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Germany has surpassed one million coronavirus cases as infections continue to rise in Europe
Germany, once a beacon of hope in Europe’s coronavirus nightmare, logged more than one million cases on Friday, while Russia…
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WHO warns of third coronavirus wave in Europe in 2021, slams countries’ lack of preparation
A World Health Organization special COVID-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if…
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Vaccine Apartheid
And yet, as the unseemly competition for vaccine doses indicates, that is exactly what many countries have done. Jayati Ghosh…
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Moderna follows Pfizer with exciting vaccine news – how to read these dramatic developments
Last week, interim results from Pfizer suggested its vaccine reduces cases of COVID-19 with 90% efficacy. Simon Kolstoe The Conversation Now…
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Immune Cells Respond to Coronavirus Six Months After Infection
All of the study’s participants had only experienced either mild or moderate symptoms or were asymptomatic. Ethen Kim Lieser The…
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‘Half-measures don’t work’: Lockdown no longer a dirty word in COVID-weary Europe
They were wrong. Nick Dole ABC News “What they discovered is that people preferred to be at home,” said ……
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‘Overwhelmed’: Germany, France return to lockdown as virus cases soar in Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced fresh lockdowns to bring down the rapidly growing…
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What happens to a woman’s body as she gives birth?
What are they? Sophie Aubrey The Age Birth is often described as a “miracle” and in many ways, of course,…
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Despite more than 30 major inquiries, governments still haven’t fixed aged care. Why are they getting away with it?
It is fair to say the findings have been highly critical of the way aged care is run in this country.…
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If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia
Over the past couple of decades, government regulation has failed to keep pace with an increasingly privatised market of for-profit…
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What developing countries can teach us about how to respond to a pandemic
The other ten are in the Americas. Authors The Conversation This includes the US, which has the highest number of…
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Europe’s second wave is worse than the first.
Europe is again in the grip of a COVID-19 resurgence, with outbreak hot-spots in the United Kingdom, Spain and France…
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Trio of scientists win Nobel Medicine Prize for discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Two American and one British-born scientist won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work in identifying the…
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Victoria now has a good roadmap out of COVID-19 restrictions.
The COVID-19 roadmap for Victoria announced by Premier Daniel Andrews sets the state on the right path. Something like it…
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Coronavirus ‘long-haulers’ are coming together in communities online in search of answers
But seven weeks after contracting COVID-19, the former fencer says she’s still struggling talk or walk quickly. Maani Truu SBS…
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