Many of us might not be as fit as we were before the pandemic hit, and as community sport restarts and gyms reopen across the country amid eased coronavirus restrictions, some people might be at increased risk of injury.
Nov 23, 2020
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With news of a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, we have hope of a way to curb a virus that has had a devastating impact on so many people. But we need to be considering a much longer-term threat to our health—drug-resistant ...
Nov 19, 2020
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Twitter users initially didn't feel positive about the state of the economy, prevention, treatment and recovery concerning COVID-19. That changed by the end of March 2020. In contrast, throughout the period examined from ...
Oct 29, 2020
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As the world rushes to identify safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics to counter the COVID-19 epidemic, attention is turning to the next step: manufacturing these products at enormous scale.
Aug 14, 2020
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COVID-19 has shown how damaging ill-health can be for the economy. But it has also shown how measures that benefit health (lockdowns) can be seen as bad economic prosperity. A similar paradox is at the heart of promoting ...
Aug 3, 2020
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In an editorial for the journal Global Health Promotion, CUNY SPH Distinguished Professor Nicholas Freudenberg and Professor Kelley Lee of Simon Fraser University outline how shifting focus to the commercial determinants ...
Jul 15, 2020
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A consumer tax on the saturated fat, salt, and sugar content of food, accompanied by a 20 percent subsidy on fruit and vegetables, would bring major benefits for the health sector, researchers from Otago, Auckland and Melbourne ...
Jul 1, 2020
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced some elective surgery can start again in private hospitals, as it becomes clear the health system will cope with the additional coronavirus demand.
Apr 23, 2020
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The federal government's Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) includes hundreds of billions of dollars of funding for the health care sector, but with health care facilities facing unprecedented expenditures, ...
Apr 3, 2020
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Critics of the pharmaceutical industry say it is misaligned with public interest. So is it time to nationalise the sector? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today.
Mar 4, 2020
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