Schools have emerged as an important site of transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19, and need to be a focus of pandemic control measures, according to Dr Zoë Hyde, an epidemiologist... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: When Pfizer and BioNTech issued this media release on 9 November, it generated international headlines about an impending COVID-19 vaccine and moved stock markets ar... Read more
Hopes that the United States election would bring a more positive era for global health have been dashed by an election result that is too close to call, despite President Donald Trump false... Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a ‘perfect storm’ for the creation and dissemination of disinformation (intentionally misleading), misinformation (unintentionally misleading) and... Read more
Without transparent data and compliance to rights-based policy, people in prison are in danger of being the forgotten and discarded when it comes to COVID-19. The article below, by Dr Tess R... Read more
The upcoming Federal Budget, delivered in the context of a health and economic crisis, provides both challenges and opportunities for health. While spending is expected to be constrained ove... Read more
In the latest edition of the COVID-19 wrap, public health researcher Alison Barrett reports on emerging evidence around the needs of COVID “long-haulers” and other recent publica... Read more
It’s time for patients and clinicians to have frank discussions about what diagnostic imaging scans can do for low back pain, and what they cannot, according to research published rece... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Getting the COVID-19 message right, about what to do and why it is so important, is hard enough when you are trying to reach adults, but have we been ignoring the n... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Whether looking to the roll out of an unproven COVID-19 vaccine in Russia or Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (short-lived) enthusiasm for mandatory vaccination, it i... Read more
