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Medicines for anxiety and antidepressants trigger post-surgery delirium

Dec 8, 2021

“Delirium affects up to 55 per cent of older patients undergoing hip surgery and is associated with an increased risk of death, prolonged hospital stays and cognitive decline. The UniSA...

Prof Tony Weiss elected to the US National Academy of Inventors

Dec 8, 2021

Professor Tony Weiss AM has been elected as a Fellow of the United States National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his development and commercialisation of synthetic biomaterials, which can...

New York City Announces First-In-The-Nation Vaccine Mandate For Private Companies

Dec 8, 2021

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced what he called a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate for private companies Monday. WATCH: Mayor De Blasio Announces Vaccine Mandate For Private CompaniesDe...

How a vaccine side-effect database sowed doubt in vaccinations

Dec 8, 2021

One of the greatest — though least discussed — challenges of the pandemic has been effective public health communication. Giving people too little information risks anti-vaccine forces swooping in to...

Com-COV2 study supports flexible second dose options following Pfizer or Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs

Dec 7, 2021

‘Encouragingly, all these schedules generated antibody concentrations above that of the licensed and effective two dose Oxford-AstraZeneca schedule. When it comes to cellular immunity, having a first dose of the...

Half of all drinkers risk exceeding legal driving limit by underestimating how drunk they are

Dec 7, 2021

Worldwide, drunk driving is a major problem, despite decades of health promotion activities. The research was carried out in Germany, where the legal driving limit is a BrAC of 0.05%...

Recipients of our 2022 SOAR prizes

Dec 7, 2021

Associate Professor John GilroyThe SOAR program helps up-and-coming research leaders build their careers by increasing the scale and impact of their research. Associate Professor John Gilroy from the Sydney Indigenous...

Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98

Dec 7, 2021

The townspeople rallied around him, pooling their nickels and dimes for his treatment. Russell was a speck on the flat Kansas prairie, but in the Dole biography it took on...

One in five future thyroid cancers linked to excess weight

Dec 6, 2021

One in five future thyroid cancers linked to excess weightThe prevalence of obesity has doubled in Australia in the last two decades. Avoiding excess weight, especially obesity, should be a...

Experts call for urgent action to improve control rates of high blood pressure

Dec 6, 2021

Leading experts on hypertension have issued a call to action to improve uncontrolled blood pressure in Australia. Raised blood pressure should be front and centre of the national health agenda,...