Health

Contact lenses found to shed microplastics

Millions of people around the world wear contact lenses, including reusable ones. But these plastic lenses don't last forever, and lenses need to be replaced every few days, weeks or months. Now, researchers reporting a pilot ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Australia is in another COVID wave, but it's not like the others

Each omicron wave so far in Australia has had distinguishing features—the sharp rise and fall of BA.1, the widespread transmission among children and families in BA.2, a shift to more infections in older people with BA.5, ...

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