Vaccination
If my child or I have COVID, when can we get our vaccine or booster shot?
As Omicron cases soar along Australia's east coast, many people are faced with having to re-book their vaccination appointments.
Jan 12, 2022
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News tagged with acute infection
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Metabolic syndrome increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a combination of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, or other conditions associated with metabolic syndrome were at much higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome and ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
SARS-CoV-2 can infect kidneys directly, researchers find
Up to 25 percent of patients' COVID-19 cases involve acute kidney injury—the kidneys' equivalent of a heart attack. Clinicians have suspected that such injuries are a side effect of the immune system's sudden release of ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A spike in ear infections this summer after COVID-19 restrictions lifted is explained
Ear pain is one of the most common reasons that young children go to the doctor, and acute otitis media—which means "middle ear infection"—is the most frequent cause for the use of antibiotics in children under 5 years ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 reinfection rate less than 1% for those with severe illness
A review of more than 9,000 U.S. patients with severe COVID-19 infection showed less than 1% contracted the illness again, with an average reinfection time of 3.5 months after an initial positive test. Those are the findings ...
Jun 15, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 may result in prolonged infection in immunocompromised children and young adults
Children and young adults with compromised immune systems, such as those undergoing cancer treatment, may experience a prolonged period of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the extended duration ...
Apr 28, 2021
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Medications
Doctors' group says antibiotics can be taken for shorter periods
(HealthDay)—Millions of Americans have at some point in their lives gotten a long course of antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection. But according to new recommendations from a major U.S. doctors' group, some of the ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prior exposure to SARS virus provides little protection against new coronavirus
Previous exposure to other coronaviruses may enhance a person's immune response to COVID-19 infection, but new research suggests that antibodies triggered by the SARS outbreak of 2003 provide only limited protection against ...
Feb 1, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds and flu
A QIMR Berghofer-led randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplements has found they do not protect most people from developing colds, flus and other acute respiratory infections.
Jan 14, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Perception of not returning to full health common after COVID-19
More than 60 percent of patients with COVID-19 feel that they have not returned to full health at a median 75 days after diagnosis, according to a study published online Jan. 8 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Jan 11, 2021
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