Influenza vaccines are recommended annually, but there’s now an increasing number of different vaccine types. Here’s what to know about this year’s shots.
The TGA has just approved a vaccine against RSV for Australians over 60. Here’s where protection is up to for the youngest children, who are also at risk from the virus.
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
Why compassion should be paired with personal responsibility to deal with new pandemic waves.
The virus is related to Hendra and Nipah viruses. But we don’t know whether it spreads from human to human.
Does it matter that NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stopped having daily media briefings?
The next months are going to remain difficult. But I’m still hopeful about the future. There will come a point when enough people are vaccinated that case numbers begin to decrease.
When he volunteered to become one of the public faces of Victoria’s COVID-19 health response, Professor Allen Cheng’s life changed course dramatically – and accelerated.
Unprecedented efforts are driving the global push for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Here's how it's likely to be rolled out in Australia.
Spoken communication is about more than words. Conversation analysis explains how "ums" and "uhs" facilitate the way we convey information.
A single centralised institute dedicated to infectious diseases and planning for potential future pandemics wouldn’t work in Australia.
They're low-cost medicines that can be easily accessed, and are being used to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
Critically ill patients from intensive care units are part of a global trial testing a suite of flu and pneumonia drugs in a bid to combat COVID-19.
... among other things lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis.
Coronavirus infections are growing and crossing geographic borders, but what are they, and should we be worried?
The adjuvanted flu vaccine is free for over-65s and offers better protection than the standard vaccine. Here's what the research says.
Two free flu vaccines will improve protection for older people, but like those already available, they're not perfect.
More than 2000 cases and 170 deaths have been recorded in Madagascar in the past three months.
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