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Omicron may enhance Delta immunity

AAP - 29-12-2021

Research by South African scientists suggests that Omicron infection enhances neutralising immunity against the Delta variant of the coronavirus. The study, which

 
Mutating kidney gene linked to disease

AAP - 22-12-2021

Australian scientists have found a gene in the human body that mutates in some people and accelerates kidney disease. Kidney disease impacts 1.7 million Australians

 
Space study to aid longer, healthier lives

AAP - 20-12-2021

Tiny human muscle cells will be blasted into space in an experiment which could help people live longer, healthier lives. The experiment, called MicroAge, is

 
Omicron 'less effective attacking lungs'

AAP - 20-12-2021

UK research has found Omicron might be less efficient at attacking the lungs than earlier COVID-19 variants. The Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology

 
Australia mRNA vaccine capacity steps up

AAP - 14-12-2021

Victorian scientists are hoping to fine-tune Australia's first mRNA vaccine by the first quarter of 2022. Researchers at Monash University developed the vaccine

 
Australia leading stroke recovery research

AAP - 12-12-2021

More than 445,000 Australians are currently living with the effects of a stroke while an estimated one in four people will suffer one during their lifetime. Rehabilitation

 
Thyroid cancer greater risk for obese men

AAP - 11-12-2021

Current obesity levels will explain 10,000 cases of thyroid cancer in the next 10 years and most of those will be men, a new Australian study shows. Being overweight

 
Youth fear COVID, climate and inequality

AAP - 01-12-2021

Nearly 70 per cent of young gender diverse Aussies feel they have been unfairly treated in this past year, highlighting an urgent need for support, Mission Australia's

 
Scientists developing 'exercise' in a pill

AAP - 01-12-2021

Australian scientists are attempting to make a pill containing many of the benefits of exercise. But it won't be medicine for lazy couch potatoes.[subscribe]

 
Health worker assaults rising

AAP - 30-11-2021

"Asking individual health care workers to stop the epidemic of violence is just like asking the lifesavers at the beach to stop the rising sea levels."

 

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