Archive: 30/06/2021

How New Zealand has managed to dodge the COVID-19 bullet again

New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia's latest COVID-19 outbreaks.

Jun 30, 2021

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Wondering how to stay cool in a heatwave? Here's what the experts say.

Dueling heatwaves on the East and West coasts of the United States have left millions of people baking in record-setting temperatures—and exposed to the potential harms of heat-related illnesses.

Jun 30, 2021

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A good night's sleep key for children with autism, study shows

A University of Canterbury (UC) study has found that a reduction in sleep problems for children on the autism spectrum vastly improves those children's behavior and their parent's wellbeing.

Jun 30, 2021

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Emergency departments used for non-urgent cases

A new study has found that many people are still attending hospital emergency departments with problems that could be dealt with by a GP.

Jun 30, 2021

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More than four in five Kiwis need a COVID jab to reach herd immunity

New modelling from Te Pūnaha Matatini has suggested that public health measures will need to remain in place for the entire duration of Aotearoa New Zealand's vaccine rollout to avoid hospitalisations and fatalities from ...

Jun 30, 2021

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Predicting daydreaming and mind blanking

The occurrence of 'slow waves', a pattern of neural activity commonly associated with the transition to sleep, could predict whether someone is about to daydream or mind blank, and how they will respond to the environment. ...

Jun 30, 2021

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MindStep program helps people with anxiety

The MindStep telehealth service offers cognitive behavioural coaching to complement the care people receive from their GP, psychologist or psychiatrist. Delivered over the phone by trained mental health coaches, the confidential ...

Jun 30, 2021

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Two emerging trends in treatment explain steady increase in IVF success rates

A large cohort study from the national IVF registry of Sweden, which included almost 125,000 treatments carried out between 2007 and 2017, has concluded that the steady rise in birth rates can be attributed to two emerging ...

Jun 30, 2021

Pumped to assist the heart with an artificial aorta

Scientists from EPFL and University of Bern have successfully implanted—in vivo—their first artificial tubular muscle that augments the aorta and assists cardiac function in pumping blood. Based on these results, the ...

Jun 30, 2021

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Long COVID cases under-reported in NHS GP records

Using the full pseudonymised GP records of 57.9 million patients in England, researchers at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have found that formally recorded diagnoses of long COVID ...

Jun 30, 2021

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