Can mental healthcare be automated?
As medical experts scramble to manage demand, how effective are digital interventions?
Depression is predicted to become the leading global cause of loss of life years due to illness by 2030, yet fewer th...
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What really causes pimples and acne?
So what’s going on in your skin?
What causes acne? It afflicts millions of people each year, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. But is...
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COVID Booster: Infodemics, synthetic drugs and convalescent plasma
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
An infodemic is not a pandemic When SARS broke out in 2003, people coined the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the...
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Pfizer vaccine for kids: Safety, side effects, allergies and doses
The COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds explained.
Australian children aged 5-11 will start to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from January 10, after it cleared the...
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Life-saving sensors
A phone alert when the quality of the air you’re breathing has become unhealthy or downright dang...
When we think of “air quality”, we imagine polluted air around our workplaces, factories and homes. Air quality can b...
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Unmasking the problem of COVID litter
Study finds an over 80-fold increase in littered masks during the pandemic.
An international team of researchers has confirmed what has been obvious to the eye – around the world, disposable ma...
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Pfizer booster proves effective against Omicron
Preliminary study reveals a 25-fold increase in effectiveness from a third vaccine shot.
As fears around Omicron swirl, Pfizer has announced that preliminary laboratory studies suggest that three doses of i...
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Remote Aboriginal communities have the highest rate of rare leukaemia virus in the world
Education program to prevent infection is urgently needed, say study authors.
A new study has found that remote central Australian Aboriginal communities have the highest prevalence of human T-ce...
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Pfizer booster found to be effective in real-world study
Getting a booster jab is 10 times more effective at stopping COVID than no booster, study finds.
A booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the Delta variant, according to an Israel...
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How to detect cancer with oranges
A Sydney University student has cooked up a fruity early-detection method for disease.
Cancer detection breakthrough Have your oranges gone bad? No need to throw them in the bin because University of Syd...
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Cochlear implants may provoke new bone formation linked to further hearing loss
The device that boosts hearing might damage hearing, too.
Cochlear implants are linked to the formation of extra bone in the ear, according to a new study. This new bone could...
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Third dose: finally some results
Third “booster” doses of COVID-19 vaccines are safe and increase immunity when given to people wh...
COVID booster vaccine test results Results are in from the first randomised, double-blinded, controlled phase 2 cl...