Vaccination

Australia must go to 'next level' on vaccine support

Burnet Institute Director and CEO Professor Brendan Crabb AC is urging Australia to go to the "next level" with its support for international vaccine equity and programs to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to countries that are ...

Vaccination

The science and economics of COVID-19 vaccines

A mad race to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 has begun with the world's superpowers leading the pack. At stake are millions of lives and billions of dollars.

Oncology & Cancer

Male and female breast cancers are not identical

Results of the EORTC10085/TBCRC/BIG/NABCG International Male Breast Cancer Program conducted in both Europe and in the United States and presented at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium found significant improvement ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Danish drugmaker to supply monkeypox vaccine to Europe

Denmark's Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, said Thursday it had signed a deal to supply European nations with up to two million doses of the jab.

Neuroscience

Africa's brain specialist shortfall is 'risking lives'

A critical shortfall in neurologists in Africa must be addressed in order to meet the health needs of patients with disorders that affect the brain, nerve and spinal cord, a study says.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Netherlands, Australia find omicron variant as curbs spread

The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest to detect it in travelers arriving from southern Africa.

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