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Australian scientists say too early to pick COVID-19 vaccine race winner in advice to Federal Government
13 August 2020 - The leading group of scientists advising the Federal Government says there is still no clear frontrunner in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
America’s backwards coronavirus strategy
22 July 2020 - The federal government’s approach is like a hospital that invests in palliative care while abolishing the oncology ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
COVID-19 - implications for the health care system
22 July 2020 - The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned four intertwined health care crises that reveal and compound deep underlying ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jul 2020
Developing NICE guidelines
17 July 2020 - NICE has published interim process and methods for guidelines developed in response to health and social ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2020
Health is more important than ever for Aussies
19 July 2020 - On Friday I spoke with a Medibank customer of more than 40 years. Margaret had her ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2020
Harnessing the power of health taxes
18 June 2020 - Health taxes are a cost effective opportunity for progress in public health. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2020
An ‘America first’ pharma supply chain sounds good. But it won’t work.
17 June 2020 - With a stroke of the president’s Executive Order pen, the Trump administration awarded a $354 million, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
The Lancet, New England Journal retract COVID-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
4 June 2020 - The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
WHO set to resume hydroxychloroquine trial in battle against COVID-19
4 June 2020 - The World Health Organization will resume its trial of hydroxychloroquine for potential use against the coronavirus, its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2020
The CDC waited its entire existence for this moment. What went wrong?
3 June 2020 - Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
‘Vaccine nationalism’: a new dynamic in the race to quash coronavirus
27 May 2020 - International pursuit for a shot is shifting into a contest of which world power can immunise its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
Modelling epidemics with compartmental models
27 May 2020 - During epidemics, there is a critical need to understand both the likely number of infections and their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
'Act now': AMA urges health education to combat 'growing' anti-vaxxer movement
25 May 2020 - Medical experts warn decades of progress on immunisation could be undone unless the federal government urgently ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
How the world’s premier public health agency was handcuffed
23 May 2020 - The CDC has been absent with leave during the spread of COVID-19. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
COVID-19: CSL aims to cover Australia with vaccine
25 May 2020 - Vaccine manufacturer CSL has plans in place to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine onshore as it confirms ...