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What to expect when a coronavirus vaccine finally arrives
20 May 2020 - Sobering lessons from the history of the polio vaccine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Europe falls behind U.S. in funding coronavirus vaccine and securing access
19 May 2020 - U.S. was faster in shouldering drug companies’ costs to develop and manufacture vaccine candidates, putting the bloc ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Is your health data safe as My Health Record hacking revealed
20 May 2020 - The government's My Health Record platform was the target of an attempted hack last year, Australia's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2020
Australia must work to avoid 'vaccine nationalism', former top bureaucrat warns
18 May 2020 - A former top bureaucrat has warned the international race to develop a vaccine against the novel ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 May 2020
The hidden wave: what happens when everything else is put on hold
15 May 2020 - When Australia's public health system pivoted to address COVID-19, many other serious diseases fell from view. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2020
27 million Americans may lose health insurance coverage
14 May 2020 - The losses come while many Americans already struggle to pay for medical care. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2020
COVID-19 raises questions about the value of personalised medicine
8 May 2020 - A group of medical dissenters argues that tailoring treatment to the genetic profiles of individuals, a longstanding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
Australia lacks vaccine making capacity, Defence report warns
6 May 2020 - Australia lacks the facilities and know-how to make its own pandemic vaccines, a report to government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
Will Gilead price its coronavirus drug for public good or company profit?
7 May 2020 - Gilead faces a new dilemma in deciding how much it should profit from the only treatment so ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
Remdesivir helps coronavirus patients — but at what cost?
6 May 2020 - Drug maker Gilead is known for creating breakthrough drugs and selling them at a premium. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
COVID-19: potentially life saving immunoglobulin treatment for seriously ill Australians
6 May 2020 - The Australian Government welcomes the announcement by CSL Behring that Australia will be one of the first ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
WHO says it will engage US to make remdesivir coronavirus treatment more widely available
4 May 2020 - The WHO welcomes the recent data from a U.S. government-run clinical trial showing the drug appeared to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2020
How remdesivir, new hope for COVID-19 patients, was resurrected
4 May 2020 - The drug failed as a treatment for hepatitis and Ebola. With federal funding, scientists trained it on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2020
Two potential therapies for COVID-19 have some effect
4 May 2020 - Hope rears its head, but more information is needed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2020
NICE joins international collaboratives to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
30 April 2020 - NICE is supporting a growing number of international collaborations to share knowledge and identify treatments in response ...