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Pediatrics

Digital program gets school kids moving

Every parent worries about how much time their child spends on screens, but what if screens could also provide the answer to growing levels of inactivity in Australian kids?

Feb 8, 2023

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Health

Researcher shows connection between digital divide and COVID-19 outcomes

Two years into the pandemic, U.S. counties with lower home internet or computer access levels were seeing higher COVID-19 case and death rates, according to research by Fei Li, an assistant professor of urban studies at Georgia ...

Dec 14, 2022

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Health

Understanding Australian adolescent girls' use of digital technologies for healthy lifestyle purposes

Teen girls confronted by unrealistic body standards on social media are tuning out in droves in search of more positive online content, research shows.

Sep 6, 2022

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Vaccination

COVID vaccine patch fights variants better than needles

A needle-free vaccine patch could better fight COVID-19 variants, such as Omicron and Delta, than a traditional needle vaccine according to a University of Queensland study in mice.

Jul 28, 2022

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Oncology & Cancer

New screening technology could increase the number of cancer tests done on a solid tumor by 50 times

A screening tool developed at the University of Strathclyde, U.K., could increase the number of tests on a solid tumor sample by up to 50 times.

Jun 21, 2022

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Using organ-on-a-chip platform, researchers devise potential strategy to treat severe COVID-19 complications

Using their novel organ-on-a-chip platform, a research team from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has identified a molecule with the potential to combat one of the most severe complications ...

Mar 28, 2022

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Vaccination

EU authorises Novavax as fifth COVID vaccine

The European Commission on Monday authorised a vaccine from US company Novavax as its fifth official jab for use across the European Union, hours after the EU medicines watchdog gave approval.

Dec 20, 2021

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Vaccination

EU set to back Novavax COVID vaccine

The EU's drug regulator will decide Monday whether to approve a COVID jab by Novavax, which uses a more conventional technology that the US biotech firm hopes will reduce vaccine hesitancy.

Dec 20, 2021

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Genetics

Trillion data points to identify disease-causing genes

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have accomplished a world-first by processing one trillion points of genomic data through VariantSpark, an artificial intelligence-based platform, which can help ...

Sep 2, 2020

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