The next phase of the Australian Government’s COVID-19 vaccination communications campaign launches today, reminding people that the first thing they need to do to get back into the swing of living normally again is get ...
Insurance company Zurich Life & Investments and its OnePath Life business have moved to include specific COVID-19 vaccine protection. The additional cover at no extra cost for death, income protection and total and permanent disability ...
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 to do just that. The team designed a synthetic defective ...
A tickle in the nose can help trigger a sneeze, expelling irritants and disease-causing pathogens. But the cellular pathways that control the sneeze reflex go far beyond the sinuses and have been poorly understood. Now, ...
A different type of surge may be on the way more than a year into the pandemic — a baby surge. The COVID-19 shutdown initially seemed to hit pause on pregnancy and birth rates, new ...
Deaths caused by indirect effects of the pandemic emphasize the need for policy changes that address widening health and racial inequities. More than 15 months into the pandemic, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is ...
Local health authorities are monitoring the situation in a Southbank townhouse complex in a bid to prevent a potential outbreak as Victoria reports no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases. These new cases in the townhouse ...
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were questions about how people in active cancer treatment would fare if they became infected with SARS-CoV-2. The worries were due, in large part, to the ...
The first evidence of a genetic link explaining why some people who catch Covid-19 don’t become sick has been discovered. A scientific and medical team led by Newcastle University, UK, has demonstrated that the gene, ...
Restrictions from Melbourne’s lockdown is set to ease on Friday with the government imposing a 25-kilometre travel bubble for Melburnian’s. This decision comes after Victoria recorded one locally acquired COVID-19 case last Tuesday According to ...
Neurological and psychiatric symptoms such as fatigue and depression are common among people with Covid-19 and may be just as likely in people with mild cases, according to a new review study led by a ...
Throughout the pandemic, doctors have seen evidence that men with COVID-19 fare worse, on average, than women with the infection. One theory is that hormonal differences between men and women may make men more susceptible ...
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