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.
A recent review has found that almost three in 10 adult hospital patients in high-income countries may have the deficiency.
A new trial is looking for chemical markers in the breath of people with silicosis. A second project will test drugs that may help lung scarring.
The world’s most advanced artificial heart, including a pipeline of transformative, next-generation cardiac technologies, are set to be developed and commercialised by a Monash University-led consortium.
The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
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.
To create robust and adaptable digital crisis response centres, we need to have a better understanding of how first responders behave and act during a disaster situation.
What began as a heart research project looking at ways to understand a potentially fatal but preventable disease has evolved from the biomedical into one more in keeping with an Indigenous perspective.
Hotter, drier conditions associated with El Niño can be detrimental to our health. These tips may help.
Gay and gender-diverse people have historically faced enormous obstacles finding refuge abroad.
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.
A new study is exploring how to improve gastrointestinal problems that plague endurance athletes, including nausea, vomiting, bloating and diarrhoea.
Despite the thalidomide experience, research into the effects of medication during pregnancy is inadequate, including in cases where pregnant women need to continue their medication.
Bee farmers discard propolis, and harvest only the honey from hives for commercial purposes, wasting its potent medicinal value. New research is changing that.
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.
As children return to school, a new study sheds light on the infection patterns of the various COVID-19 virus variants in open-space learning.
Only one in nine medical graduates see general practice as a career choice, and the implications should deeply concern everyone.
The Omicron strain is driving a rapid increase in China, and is quicker to transmit than other variants.
Despite the often-divisive discussions leading up to this state election, the next state parliament should focus on developing community cohesion in public health.
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.
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