A couple who travelled from Victoria through the NSW while infectious with COVID-19 have presented a “real and present danger” to the communities and places that they have visited according to Health Minister Brad Hazzard. ...
49 community pharmacies across Queensland had begun the rollout and started offering the COVID-19 vaccine to members of the community. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Chris Owen, Queensland Branch’s Acting President, has welcomed this announcement ...
Victoria reported 5 new local cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. One of these cases was a health worker in a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated. These new ...
Read this joint statement from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) and the Thrombosis and Haemostasis society of Australia and New Zealand (THANZ) on Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) and the use of ...
People are not very nice to machines. The disdain goes beyond the slot machine that emptied your wallet, a dispenser that failed to deliver a Coke or a navigation system that took you on an ...
Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are reporting the first instance of COVID-19 triggering a rare recurrence of potentially serious blood clots in people’s arms. The discovery, published in the journal Viruses, improves the ...
Pregnant women who develop severe COVID-19 infections that require hospitalization for pneumonia and other complications may not be more likely to die from these infections than non-pregnant women. In fact, they may have significantly lower ...
As the COVID-19 cases continue to rise in India, doctors have begun to notice another alarming trend. Some COVID-19 patients who have recently been released from the hospital came back with symptoms like sinus pain, ...
A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute’s human organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, ...
The age-standardized death rate of Australians with dementia fell during the first 10 months of 2020, probably as a result of measures designed to prevent COVID-19 infections also limiting the spread of other infectious respiratory ...
Children with weakened immune systems have not shown a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection despite commonly displaying symptoms, a new study suggests. During a 16-week period that covered the first wave of the ...
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 ...
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