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The only vaccination against TB is more than 100 years old. Gene-editing has made it more effective.
In a human ‘challenge trial’ we deliberately infected volunteers with COVID to get the answer.
A previous review suggested that masks don’t work. We can assure you – they do.
A new type of vaccine using nanotechnology protects against a range of coronaviruses – in mice.
On the fourth anniversary of the pandemic, a public health researcher offers four principles for a healthier future.
Alaskapox was discovered in 2015 and has generally only caused mild illness – until now.
The mysterious case of the OC43 coronavirus pandemic.
Vaccine policies fall on a spectrum, from mandates to recommendations. Deciding what to use and when is not so much a science but a balancing act between personal autonomy and public good.
Australia needed a federal government-inquiry into the management of the pandemic. Albanese recognised this and before the election he indicated Labor would have one. But he was vague about its form.
Hundreds of thousands of red hearts adorn a wall directly opposite parliament, yet successive prime ministers have nothing to say about officially marking the lives lost in the pandemic.
COVID has spread many times from humans to white-tailed deer and back again.
Medical folk wisdom is the complex problem health professionals can’t afford to ignore.
New research shows that breastfeeding rates peaked in 2020, a time of strict COVID restrictions.
Some experts are calling for a return to masking as new variants emerge.
Researchers found that people with a specific gene variant were two to eight times more likely to not have symptoms after infection.
There’s pretty much no one left in the US who hasn’t been exposed to the coronavirus, whether by vaccination, infection or both.
Deciding what to eat can be mentally taxing, especially when you are not feeling well. But, our diet plays a role in preventing and managing poor health, including COVID.
Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the pandemic.
You’d be surprised how far back the roots of anti-vaccine arguments stretch.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
