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If you’re preparing to come off the pill, it’s hard to know what to expect, particularly if you’ve been on it for a long time.
A team analyzed more than 21 million tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and found that negative sentiments on social media were tied to lower-than-expected vaccination rates in many nations.
Water and lemon juice on their own are healthy. But what if you combine them?
Studies show if medical staff talk about potential side effects in negative terms, the patient’s experience can worsen. We need to consider this ‘nocebo’ effect when talking about COVID vaccinations.
The mind is a powerful thing – it can generate both symptoms of illness and symptoms of healing. Here’s what this could tell us about consciousness.
It has been six months since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine received emergency use authorization. What does six months of data show about its efficacy, side effects and protection from variants?
Ongoing tracking is meant to spot very rare risks – like the connection between the Johnson & Johnson shot and Guillain-Barré syndrome. And it relies on public reporting.
Each province and district in South Africa has allocated persons responsible for investigating adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
Side effects generally indicate a natural immune response and will resolve in a few days.
It’s normal for different people to mount stronger or weaker immune responses to a vaccine, but post-shot side effects won’t tell you which you are.
AstraZeneca just announced results from its US-based trial. It found the vaccine to be 79% effective and safe for use, despite recent concerns around reports of blood clots.
Many people are taking glucosamine for their osteoarthritis. But do they really need to stop in light of new safety warnings?
While the probiotics found in fermented foods might have health benefits for most, these foods could cause serious harm to the health of others.
About 470,000 children in the US have epilepsy. Promising advances are being made in the field of epilepsy treatment for children.
There’s more to antibiotics than meets the eye.
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams could help cancer survivors to recover from the toxic side-effects of their treatments and return to their lives.
Ageing populations and efforts to medicate to prevent disease are both factors that have driven up the use of pharmaceuticals, but we have inadequate means of reporting side effects.
Don’t mix your statins with grapefruit, or leafy green vegetables with warfarin.
Sleeping tablets such as Ambien can have serious side effects.
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Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, AMREP Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne & Senior Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Melbourne Oncology Group, Cabrini Haematology and Oncology Centre, Wattletree Road, Malvern, Monash University
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Honorary professorial fellow, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Bioethics, Monash University
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Lecturer (Complementary Medicines) Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor and NHMRC Australian Fellow, Medicine, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese Herbal Medicine and Medicinal Plant Science, University of Westminster
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Honorary Fellow, Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
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Reader in Clinical Pharmacy, Aston University
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Pharmacy Teaching Fellow and PhD student (Digital health), Kingston University
