No wonder isolation’s so tiring. All those extra, tiny decisions are taxing our brains Shutterstock Anxiety, depression, loneliness and stress are affecting our sleep patterns and how tired we feel. But we may be getting ...
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has rejoined the medical register and offered to work shifts to help the health service during the coronavirus crisis. Mr Varadkar worked as a hospital doctor and as a ...
The coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19, is a frightening reminder of the imminent global threat posed by emerging infectious diseases. Although epidemics have arisen during all of human history, they now seem to be on the ...
Stop the world – I want to get off is the title of a musical created in the 1960s. Some 55 years later as we become globally enmeshed in a pandemic the like of which ...
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new ...
This is a long post addressing two underlying issues with the current response to the pandemic that leave me concerned. It’s the longest post I’ve ever written. For those of you not taking action, or ...
According to scientists in Australia, HIV and Malaria treatments can be used to fight COVID-19. A team of infectious disease experts at the University of Queensland in Brisbane say they have seen two existing medications ...
Moderna Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Cambridge, Mass., has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine was created just 42 days after the genetic sequence of the COVID_19 virus, called SARS-CoV-2, ...
The Federal Government has announced funding for providers to access training, additional staff and in-facility testing for coronavirus and flu as part of a $2.4 billion health response to the pandemic. The packages includes $101.2 ...
COVID -19 is a notifiable condition under the Australian National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). This means that in all Australian states and territories, either the medical officer requesting the test and/or the laboratory performing ...
Often, quality medical care can be found in developing nations, with lower costs and an opportunity to have a holiday at the same time. For these appealing reasons, the trend in medical travel is increasing. ...
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