Hospitals
Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Michael Kidd, answers the top three questions you’ve been asking about the second AstraZeneca vaccine dose, vaccine safety, and consent forms. If I am under the age of 50 and ...
Middle-age and older people living in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods — areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities — had more brain shrinkage on brain scans and showed a faster decline on ...
Telehealth has become a critical way for doctors to still provide health care while minimizing in-person contact during COVID-19. But with phone or Zoom appointments, it’s harder for doctors to get important vital signs from ...
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 ...
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 ...
Until recently I haven’t really given a lot of thought to community health. As the COVID-19 pandemic still continues to play a huge part in 2021 (and perhaps years to come) it got me thinking ...
Phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine national roll-out strategy will commence on March 22, 2021. Here is what you need to know: Who will be vaccinated under Phase 1B, based on recommendations by the Australian ...
The National Cabinet met to discuss Australia’s COVID-19 response and the Australian COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy and assures the public that they continue to work together to address issues and find solutions to the health and ...
A new meta-analysis gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects. Much of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to alleviate pain ...
Dementia is a syndrome – usually of a chronic or progressive nature – in which there is deterioration in cognitive function (i.e. the ability to process thought) beyond what might be expected from normal ageing. ...
Elizabeth and Bruce Dunlevie have made an $80 million gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine to launch a bold new clinical and research program that will transform the health of mothers ...
A new model of disease spread describes how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact – and vice versa. The result is a complex and dynamic epidemic trajectory based on people’s behavior. The morning ...