Psychology & Psychiatry

Online tool eyes youth mental healthcare experience

A new online project aims to improve the experiences of young people entering the mental healthcare system with an eye toward building better relationships between providers and youth.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists grow and share novel coronavirus

Scientists from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) – a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne hospital—have successfully grown the Wuhan coronavirus ...

Medical research

Google's health startup forges venture with AbbVie

Google's ambitious health startup is teaming up with biotechnology drugmaker AbbVie in a $500 million joint venture that will try to develop new ways to treat cancer and other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Addiction

One in four regional Australian teens using vapes: Study

Over a quarter of people aged 14–17 have used e-cigarettes ("vaped") and one in 10 have done so within the last 30 days, according to a new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Other

Drugmaker GSK buys US vaccine firm for up to $3.3 bn

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday snapped up US biopharmaceutical firm Affinivax for up to $3.3 billion, expanding further into vaccines before the demerger of its consumer health care arm.

Other

Drugmaker GSK buys US cancer firm for $1.9 bn

GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday said it had agreed to buy US group Sierra Oncology, a specialist in medicines for rare forms of cancer, for $1.9 billion as the British drugs giant restructures.

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