As more cases of the virus emerge outside Africa, there are significant concerns about its potential to escalate, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
The field of RNA therapeutics has expanded incredibly in the past 30 years, and mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were just the start.
Clinical trials of an mRNA vaccine have begun, and researchers expect broadly positive outcomes in the fight against the widespread illness.
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.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.
A review indicates that both cannabinoids and terpenes in cannabis show great promise as antivirals in laboratory research, and could be used to treat infections including COVID-19.
New research shows if we know more about what groups of people think, real science can be communicated in better ways, and more will accept the facts.
XBB. 1.5 and other subvariants do signal a change in how the virus is mutating. Here’s what this means for Australia and globally.
The Omicron strain is driving a rapid increase in China, and is quicker to transmit than other variants.
Unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine fuelled calls for a patent waiver, but any major change needs to ensure a better outcome for developing economies.
Unclear and often mixed messages have contributed to public confusion that has arguably placed people’s health at risk.
Distrust is framed as a problem that needs to be solved. Instead, it can signal where there are deep social problems that need to be addressed.
A new book based on the world’s largest multi-professional study of its kind relates the distressing experiences of Australian healthcare workers amid the pandemic.
The pandemic stretched our healthcare system to breaking point, but it also proved how new and positive models of screening and care can quickly be created in adversity.
It’s almost comically hypocritical to argue that the Therapeutic Goods Administration needs to ‘loosen up’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government’s Rapid Antigen Test policy is a disaster by any measure. It should own up to its policy failure and try to improve the situation as soon as possible.
2022 will be the year we finally have all the means, measures, and tools to control the pandemic to a non-lethal state.
We tend to think of “psychedelics” as illegal, mind-altering substances, but they might just be the key to unlocking a revolution in mental health treatment.
How do we enable people to make evidence-based, health and life-protecting choices in a pandemic?
A new study has found extreme cold weather increased the risk of death in Italy during the pandemic, and while Australian conditions are different, there are valuable lessons to be learned.
The new phase of the pandemic will come with a period of uncertainty as we adjust to “living with the virus” and a see-sawing of some restrictions.
The new variant of interest, detected in 42 countries, possesses a “constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape”.
When we live in society, we give up our “natural freedom” to do whatever we like, and we gain a new “civil freedom” to enjoy the benefits of common life.
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