Mayo Clinic Cancer Center announced on Tuesday, Aug. 31, that it is following recommendations from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network that encourage cancer patients to receive a third dose of a messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine. The Moderna and ...
The nurse’s union warns that using the NSW’s 2000-bed intensive care “surge capacity” unit will come at the cost of COVID-19 care and staff-patient ratios. 116 patients in the NSW are currently in intensive care ...
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 linked to a known case or cluster – 149 are ...
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 ...
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 ...
NSW recorded 344 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night. Of these locally acquired cases, 115 are linked to a known case or cluster – 97 are ...
Construction of the Illawarra Shoalhaven mass COVID-19 vaccination centre is in its final stages, with the Wollongong CBD facility set to open its doors next Monday, 9 August. Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) Chief ...
As further Paramedics test positive for COVID-19, the Australian Paramedics Association (NSW) is demanding urgent measures to keep workers and communities safe, including better PPE and safety practices, greater hospital capacity and rapid antigen testing. ...
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