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Resistant bacteria aren't the only risk posed by overprescribing antibiotics. A more immediate risk is side-effects and reactions, which a new review shows are surprisingly frequent and often severe.
'Normal' body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find the trend extends to Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon – but why?
Widely adopted in the US when pandemic precautions kept people home, telehealth faces a challenge as insurance coverage changes, right when its popularity had surged.
Scientists in the UK and Germany discovered a new doorway that the COVID-19 virus uses to infect human cells. This reveals new therapeutic possibilities for blocking the virus.
Over the approaching holidays, people around the world will want to travel to see friends and family. Getting tested for the coronavirus can make this safer, but testing alone is not a perfect answer.
Patients suffering from severe COVID-19 may be experiencing a rogue antibody response similar to that seen in autoimmune diseases. The findings offer new approaches for COVID-19 therapy.
The 17th-century plague of Italy has lessons for today: Back then, too, people broke public health laws, but there were clergymen who intervened.
Our video shows aerosol emissions from singing a simple scale. No wonder singing in a choir can be risky.
Some 70-80% of health-care workers testing positive to COVID-19 in Victoria's second wave were infected at work, compared with 22% in the first wave.
Reports describe a Hong Kong man who was reinfected with the coronavirus after returning from Europe. Does that mean he wasn't immune after the first infection?
Aerosols of some FDA-approved food coloring could deactivate airborne viruses.
Simple hygiene goes a long way to avoid serious eye infections.
Research shows that children can become infected with the coronavirus and spread it to others. Though rare, some kids do become severely ill and a few have died from COVID-19.
It's excellent this virus has been found early, but there is no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission.
'Normal' body temperature varies from person to person by age, time of day, where it's measured, and even menstrual cycle. External conditions also influence your thermometer reading.
Human psychology has evolved to avoid situations that could lead to infection. Behavioral choices now could have long-term effects on how people interact with others and the world.
Swedish authorities claim the country is rapidly approaching herd immunity.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
Questions remain about COVID-19 infection, transmission, treatment and recovery. Here are answers to some common questions about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
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Specialist General Practitioner, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Early Childhood Development, University of Western Australia
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IMB Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
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NHMRC Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Immunology researcher, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia
