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 finalises the successful prosecution of Operation Apus, an NDIS Fraud ...
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 at MUSC, contributed to a study that found that 22% of children ...
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 testing for COVID-19, which in turn, was necessary to get ...
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 time before the backlog can be addressed, says Australian Private ...
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 work on messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19. The prize ...
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 weeks, pharmacists have rapidly administered over 100,000 doses of the ...
Prison officers are still waiting to get vaccinated even as COVID-19 case numbers begin to seriously test their efforts to keep NSW’s jails virus-free, with the union calling on Justice Health to reinstate the on-site ...
NSW recorded 452 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 129 are linked to a known case or cluster – 105 are ...
Researchers at Karolinska Karolinska Institute recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same research group has published a study in The Lancet Oncology, which ...
NSW recorded 390 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 140 are linked to a known case or cluster – 118 are ...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) urge all jurisdictions, and practitioners, to heed the advice issued by RANZCOG and ATAGI ...
Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak in the Western NSW Local Health District, non-urgent elective surgery will be temporarily postponed at Dubbo Base Hospital from Monday 16 August 2021. All emergency surgery and urgent elective ...