Effect of pain medication on immunity; impact...

Australia has many stories from people who say they have long COVID but who are unable to access help | Updated versions of coronavirus vaccines targeting the Omicron variant have been announced, yet the virus still mutates | People with Type 1 diabetes need to monitor their bloo ...  Show more

What an Australian Centre for Disease Control might aim to be; An Indigenous perspective and research to engage culture for protection against cardiovascular disease and stroke; Research on links between mental health and mortality concludes that both mental and physical health c ...  Show more

Researchers at the University of Sydney have reviewed multiple global studies on common painkillers and found that they have a marked effect on our resistance to infection—which is sometimes bad and sometimes good—and more studies are needed on possible alternatives for pain mana ...  Show more

Doctors, nurses and other health professionals look after you and keep you as healthy. But despite Australia's relative good health, compared to other countries, it has major problems with general practice. By international standards we are probably overproducing medical graduate ...  Show more

New variants of the COVID-19 virus continue to appear, and especially as there are low income countries with low levels of immunisation—and so high levels of circulating virus. The 2022-23 Australian Budget allocated A$85 million to COVAX, the international program for delivering ...  Show more

In a global pandemic, you have to take your successes where you can find them.Among the doom and gloom of three-quarters of a million new cases a day worldwide, it's important to look at how much progress we've made in fighting back against COVID-19.To date, more than a billion v ...  Show more