Continuing with a strong focus on staff wellbeing, DB Results has announced it will follow New Zealand’s landmark legislation by offering bereavement leave to staff, if sadly the need should arise. This paid leave applies ...
A new study using human genetics suggests researchers should prioritize clinical trials of drugs that target two proteins to manage COVID-19 in its early stages. The findings appeared online in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2021. ...
Procter and Gamble (P&G) have announced the approval and closing deal of its acquisition of Australia’s leading effervescent vitamin brand, VOOST, for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition has enabled P&G to strengthen its medical footprint ...
According to the CDC, cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths. Using other tobacco ...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has left the door open to the possibility of sending Australian-made AstraZeneca vaccines to Papua New Guinea and the Australian Medical Association has called on him to act. Australia’s nearest neighbour ...
COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries. For World Health Day, WHO is therefore issuing five calls for urgent action to improve ...
Challenges in moving from volume to value in healthcare were highlighted in a Productivity Commission, a health case study, released last week. “The latest edition of the Australian Health Review, the academic journal of the ...
Leading experts engaged in the science-policy interface of public health, biodiversity, and climate change will collaborate in an innovative initiative led by the WHO and IUCN to help guide decision-makers toward a healthier, greener and ...
The first day of the Workplace Mental Health Summit 2021 kicked off with Jim Kelly, Director of Health and Safe Design SafeWork NSW, and with Sean Hall as the Chair. Kelly started the discussion by ...
New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant released the NSW HIV Strategy 2021–2025, which aims to achieve the virtual elimination of HIV transmission in NSW. NSW is a world leader in responding to ...
This WHO Medical Product Alert refers to falsified COVID-19 Vaccine identified as “BNT162b2” detected in Mexico in February 2021 and recently confirmed as falsified to the WHO. The falsified product was supplied and administered to patients ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects in U.S. nursing homes and long-term care facilities, resulting in an estimated 1.2 million infections and 147,000 deaths as of early 2021. Yet even as mortality rates in ...
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