Sunday, November 24, 2024

UM’s latest breakthrough in fungal spore research helps reduce risk of fungal infection for...

A team led by Prof Wong Koon Ho in the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) has made a breakthrough in understanding the biology of fungal spores...

Tracking COVID‑19 and variants of concern in wastewater around the globe

An international team of researchers led by the University of Otago and Western University, Canada, is investigating how wastewater can provide an accurate picture of COVID‑19 cases in a population and detect emerging variants of concern.

After its first suspected Delta variant community case, New Zealand goes into short, sharp...

New Zealanders are back in their bubbles after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a three day alert level 4 lockdown for the entire country, and a seven day period for Auckland...

A promising new treatment for COVID-19 infection

A flowering plant native to North Africa and Western Asia could be utilised in the future treatment of COVID-19 infection.

National Māori Pandemic Group wins recognition for Covid-19 response

A pandemic health initiative won the top award at a celebration of Māori excellence.

Monash researcher part of an international team behind a fast 20 minute, hand held...

A Monash researcher is part of an international consortium of scientists that has developed a CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone camera...

Global eradication of COVID-19 should not be dismissed – new analysis

Eradicating COVID‑19 across the globe is theoretically more feasible than for polio but much less so than it was for smallpox, according to an analysis by New Zealand researchers.

Overcoming pandemic cave syndrome: Why is it so complicated?

For U.S. workers and students who have toiled remotely in isolation or in pods for the past year and a half, reentering offices, classrooms and other old stomping grounds...

OPINION As Sydney’s lockdown continues, what support is available – and needed – for...

JobKeeper and the Coronavirus Supplement ended earlier this year. But the last few months in have shown the COVID crisis is far from over in Australia.

Arthritis drugs save lives of hospitalised Covid-19 patients

Drugs used to treat arthritis, known as interleukin-6 antagonists, reduce deaths and the need for mechanical ventilation among people hospitalised with Covid-19...
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