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 new five-year study aims to build a broad picture of illicit drug use in regional Victoria, to better-understand the gaps in local health service planning.
Hotter, drier conditions associated with El Niño can be detrimental to our health. These tips may help.
From New York to Tokyo, Melbourne to Venice – honeybee hives have revealed the unique genetic signatures of cities, even providing insights into human health.
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.
German doctors have reported success in treating patients with severe lupus, using cell treatments like those used for some forms of blood cancer.
The virus is related to Hendra and Nipah viruses. But we don’t know whether it spreads from human to human.
Could a combination of phage therapy and antibiotics be the key to unlocking the antimicrobial-resistant superbug crisis?
As the situation evolves, the World Health Organisation expects still more cases of monkeypox will be identified as surveillance expands in non-endemic countries.
2022 will be the year we finally have all the means, measures, and tools to control the pandemic to a non-lethal state.
At this stage it’s hard to know for sure why Melbourne’s COVID numbers are higher, but it’s likely that climate plays a role.
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 variant of interest, detected in 42 countries, possesses a “constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape”.
The rapidly-mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus is testing the resilience of the world’s responses, with some variants evolving to become more infectious, and threatening a third wave.
With so much recent focus on how women are treated, we need to look first at how we use language. And for a long time, it’s been used to belittle and silence women.
Instead of criminalising their citizens, India and Australia must invest more in strengthening ethical public health responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
Scientists are well-advanced in mapping the way forward to develop and repurpose medicines for respiratory virus patients in the post-COVID era.
Dr Harry Al-Wassiti, Research Fellow at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), answers the questions about the jab that's on everyone's mind.
Australia has just embarked on a mass vaccination campaign, but historic measures will remain an important community safeguard.
Using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics, researchers have found a way to revert antibiotic resistance.
Medicine's linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French, but the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
Dr Erica Tandori, a legally blind artist, is working with biomedical researchers to scale up microscopic life and place it, literally, into people’s hands.
Before COVID-19 began causing sickness, pain and death, a much bigger health threat has been evolving, and desperately needs to be stopped.
A behind-the-scenes look at the two vaccine candidates being developed by Monash University and the Doherty Institute.
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