Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were questions about how people in active cancer treatment would fare if they became infected with SARS-CoV-2. The worries were due, in large part, to the ...
The first evidence of a genetic link explaining why some people who catch Covid-19 don’t become sick has been discovered. A scientific and medical team led by Newcastle University, UK, has demonstrated that the gene, ...
A couple who travelled from Victoria through the NSW while infectious with COVID-19 have presented a “real and present danger” to the communities and places that they have visited according to Health Minister Brad Hazzard. ...
The following are real-life lessons from family planning interventions and reproductive health programmes in 15 different countries. Paola is part of a community-based, partner-led programme to reduce pregnancy rates among younger people in her health district. Her efforts ...
Restrictions from Melbourne’s lockdown is set to ease on Friday with the government imposing a 25-kilometre travel bubble for Melburnian’s. This decision comes after Victoria recorded one locally acquired COVID-19 case last Tuesday According to ...
Heart attacks and strokes — the leading causes of death in human beings — are fundamentally blood clots of the heart and brain. Better understanding how the blood-clotting process works and how to accelerate or ...
49 community pharmacies across Queensland had begun the rollout and started offering the COVID-19 vaccine to members of the community. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Chris Owen, Queensland Branch’s Acting President, has welcomed this announcement ...
Neurological and psychiatric symptoms such as fatigue and depression are common among people with Covid-19 and may be just as likely in people with mild cases, according to a new review study led by a ...
A facial expression or the sound of a voice can say a lot about a person’s emotional state; and how much they reveal depends on the intensity of the feeling. But is it really true ...
Despite a name straight from a Tarantino movie, natural killer (NK) cells are your allies when it comes to fighting infections and cancer. If T cells are like a team of specialist doctors in an ...
Throughout the pandemic, doctors have seen evidence that men with COVID-19 fare worse, on average, than women with the infection. One theory is that hormonal differences between men and women may make men more susceptible ...