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Dementia Action Week
Aged Care, Healthcare, Hospitals
A little support makes a big difference this Dementia Action Week
Healthcare Channel Aug 24, 2021

The theme for this year’s Dementia Action Week – to be held from Monday 20 September – Sunday 26 September, is ‘A little support makes

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Pfizer and BioNTech
Children's Health, COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine COMIRNATY Receives Full U.S. FDA Approval for Individuals 16 Years and Older
Healthcare Channel Aug 24, 2021

Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Biologics License Application (BLA) for COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) to prevent COVID-19

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lymphoid
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Study sounds note of caution on effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for patients with lymphoid malignancies
Healthcare Channel Aug 24, 2021

Patients with lymphoma or other lymphoid cancers should continue to take steps to protect themselves from COVID-19 even if they have been vaccinated against the

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alliance
COVID-19, Healthcare News, Hospitals
National Rural Health Alliance says daily vaccine race gives false hope
Healthcare Channel Aug 24, 2021

The political rhetoric at daily COVID-19 briefings that the ticket to freedom for city dwellers is reaching up to 80 per cent vaccination coverage, is

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cases
Aged Care, COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
COVID-19 Update: NSW records 681 new locally acquired cases
Healthcare Channel Aug 19, 2021

NSW recorded 681 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 170 are

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experiments
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
New case study reveals scientists’ subjecting non-human primates to cruel and irrelevant fear experiments.
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

On August 19 2021, Humane Research Australia (HRA) will release a new case study questioning the scientific relevance of fear experiments conducted on marmosets by researchers at

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NDIS
Hospitals
Protecting NDIS: Woman sentenced over fraud plot
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

A woman linked to a criminal syndicate convicted of plotting to defraud NDIS participants has been sentenced for her involvement. The sentencing of the woman

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neurological
Children's Health, COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Kids with COVID-19 or MIS-C have surprisingly high rates of neurological symptoms
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

Children and adolescents are at risk of developing serious neurological complications from COVID-19 that require hospitalization. Elizabeth Mack, M.D., chief of pediatric critical care medicine

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swab
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Cooperation Under Pressure: Lessons from Covid Swab Crisis
Lourdes Antenor Aug 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – August 18, 2021 – A major crisis that accompanied the rise of the pandemic was lack of availability of the nasopharyngeal swab—necessary for

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elective surgery
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
APHA says Elective surgery backlog in ‘serious’ state
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

A significant number of patients are waiting for elective surgery, 18 months after the first COVID-19 enforced shut down of procedures. It will be some

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award
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman Awarded Horwitz Prize for Pioneering Research on Covid Vaccines
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

NEW YORK, NY (August 16, 2021)—Columbia will award the 2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, for trailblazing

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pharmacists
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Pharmacists quickly reach 100k rollout milestone
Lourdes Antenor Aug 17, 2021

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) congratulates Australian pharmacists for standing up for their communities, as they pass an important milestone. In a few short

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