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mandatory
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AHPPC statement on mandating vaccinations for disability care workers
Healthcare Channel Jul 13, 2021

Many people with disabilities have a higher risk of developing severe illnesses from COVID-19. Mandatory vaccination among residential disability workers will help protect people with

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Fibromyalgia
Hospitals
Fibromyalgia likely the result of autoimmune problems
Lourdes Antenor Jul 8, 2021

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and the Karolinska

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treatment
Healthcare, Healthcare News
New treatment options for deadliest of cancers
Lourdes Antenor Jul 8, 2021

A new targeted treatment for mutant proteins which can cause the deadliest of cancers in humans has been uncovered by scientists at the University of

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fighting
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Learning - Topics
Fighting COVID with COVID
Lourdes Antenor Jul 8, 2021

What if the COVID-19 virus could be used in fighting against itself? Researchers at Penn State have designed a proof-of-concept therapeutic that may be able

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lockdown
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
COVID-19 update: NSW restrictions explained as lockdown is extended
Lourdes Antenor Jul 8, 2021

NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has announced that the two-week lockdown restrictions for greater Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong will be extended for an

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rights
Healthcare
WHO pledges extensive commitments towards women’s empowerment and health
Lourdes Antenor Jul 6, 2021

The World Health Organization announced multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity at

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antivirals
COVID-19, Healthcare
Potential antivirals for COVID-19 revealed in large-scale drug analysis
Lourdes Antenor Jul 6, 2021

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Dundee have screened thousands of drug and chemical molecules and identified a range of potential

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immunotherapy
Healthcare
Immunotherapy without side effects could be a possibility
Lourdes Antenor Jul 6, 2021

In recent years, immunotherapy has revolutionised the field of cancer treatment. However, inflammatory reactions in healthy tissues frequently trigger side effects that can be serious

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hair
Learning - Topics
Turns out stress CAN turn your hair grey but it’s reversible
Healthcare Channel Jul 6, 2021

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned grey overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate — hair that has

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burnout
Healthcare
Q&A: Alison Coughlan of The Health Hazard tackling workplace burnout
Lourdes Antenor Jul 2, 2021

Alison Coughlan is the author of The Health Hazard: Take control, restore wellbeing and optimise impact. Alison draws on more than 25 years’ experience in the health

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Southern
Healthcare
The Southern diet – fried foods and sugary drinks – may raise risk of sudden cardiac death
Healthcare Channel Jul 1, 2021

Regularly eating a Southern-style diet may increase the risk of sudden cardiac death, while routinely consuming a Mediterranean diet may reduce that risk, according to

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oral
Healthcare
Restoring lost oral functions with pacemaker-like devices
Lourdes Antenor Jul 1, 2021

Even the mundane act of swallowing requires a well-coordinated dance of more than 30 oral muscles. The loss of function of even one of these,

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