Vaping causes harm and addiction in 'new generation' of users, major report warns
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The growing use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, in Australia poses a "serious public health risk" and threatens to introduce a new generation to smoking. That's according to the authors of a major new government report into the health effects of e-cigarettes, which found vaping can be harmful, particularly for non-smokers and yo...
Clinical trials to begin on two new COVID-19 vaccines developed by Melbourne researchers
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Clinical trials are set to begin on two new COVID-19 vaccines being developed in Melbourne that researchers say may improve immunity to the
The two vaccines were created by researchers at the Doherty Institute and Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS).
The trials will assess the effectiveness of the vaccines as a fourth dose...
COVID pills, a holy grail vaccine and 'immune fitness': Why there's a virus 'recalibration' coming
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Kerry Chant probably summed it up best: "All of us just want COVID to be gone." The NSW Chief Health Officer was speaking at a press conference earlier this month and said while the idea of the virus vanishing was not possible, 2022 would be a year of "recalibration". All states and territories in Australia are now living w...
COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests that are approved in Australia
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The TGA has approved the following COVID-19 self-tests (home use tests) for supply in Australia from 1 November 2021. Please refer to the instructions on how to use each test (that are provided in the table below) for further information on what sample types the test can be used with (e.g. nasal swab or saliva).
The TGA's performance r...
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses have better efficacy when given 12 weeks apart, study finds
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Waiting three months between the first and second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine results in high efficacy, backing current recommendations from Australian authorities, new research shows.
Key points:
Australia's regulator recommends a 12-week gap between AstraZeneca doses
Research in The Lancet shows the first of the two ja...
The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine have arrived. What happens next?
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Australia has doubled its coronavirus vaccine stocks after hundreds of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were flown into Sydney on Sunday.
The federal government says it hopes the new vaccine will be going into people's arms from Monday, March 8.
What happened on Sunday?
Three hundred thousand doses of the Oxford-Ast...
Inside CSL, where Australia's Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are being made
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At the back of a building in Melbourne's northern outskirts is a long, narrow room roughly the area of a tennis court.
Technicians and operators — fully decked out in protective onesies, gloves, goggles, hairnets and masks — bustle about, tending to a vast array of gleaming stainless steel equipment and what looks like kilometres...
Could mass testing for COVID-19 prevent Australia's next coronavirus lockdown?
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Austria, Slovakia and Luxembourg have done it.
China shut down an entire city to do it as well.
Mass testing of an entire population to detect both symptomatic and non-symptomatic coronavirus infections has also been trialled by some cities in the United Kingdom.
There is a school of thought that conducting such large-scale health screenin...
Victorian antibody research could be key coronavirus vaccine alternative
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Victorian scientists have had a breakthrough in using antibodies to prevent coronavirus from infecting human cells in what could be a crucial alternative to a vaccine.
Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been given $500,000 from the Victorian Government to continue developing antibody-based therapies for the treatment and p...
Scientists breach brain barriers to attack tumors
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The brain is a sort of fortress, equipped with barriers designed to keep out dangerous pathogens. But protection comes at a cost: These barriers interfere with the immune system when faced with dire threats such glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor for which there are few effective treatments.
Yale researchers have found a novel way to circumven...
