The world needs to ramp up efforts to combat Covid-19 — and countries must not let their guard down, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist warned Monday as coronavirus cases around the world surge. “We’re at a very risky period,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan of the World Health Organization. “We need to double down, this is… Read More »
Kate Cardente holds her then 3-month-old daughter, Ainsley, as she undergoes a gene therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is a disease that is the primary genetic cause of death in babies. Ainsley is getting a one-time infusion of Zolgensma. Baltimore Sun | Tribune News Service | Getty Images LONDON — A drug that… Read More »
NSW has reached a milestone 50 days without a locally acquired case of COVID-19 but one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts warns normal life won’t be for another year. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases professor at the Australian National University, believes the threat of more outbreaks this winter means NSW residents shouldn’t be… Read More »
How many calories does cycling burn? How many calories burned cycling depends on various factors such as body weight, gender and level of fitness. Other factors such as distance and intensity also need to be taken into account. You are generally more likely to burn more calories the faster you cycle, simply because the body… Read More »
Alexa, show me the future of drug advertising? Bayer Consumer Health’s first-ever Alexa interactive ad allows consumers to buy an OTC product by talking to the Amazon device—and may foreshadow broader trends in the industry. The U.K. ad for Bayer’s Berocca Boost, a vitamin and caffeine tablet, is running as a trial during programming streamed by Global,… Read More »
Many people ask, “Do wisdom teeth hurt coming in?”. The simple answer is – Yes! They can. Wisdom teeth are the last pair of teeth to emerge in your mouth, one pair at the back of each jaw. Sometimes, these can emerge at awkward angles or even get stuck below the gums and the side… Read More »
By ANISH KOKA “The patient in room 1 should be a quick one, its an addon, they just need a prescription for ivermectin” I’m a bit puzzled by this sentence from my assistant doing his best to help me through a very busy day in the clinic that I’m already behind in. I walk into… Read More »
The federal government remains well behind its initial COVID-19 vaccination targets nearly a fortnight into its rollout. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in January he “anticipated optimistically” 80,000 Australians would be vaccinated every week at the beginning of the rollout, before the effort was “scaled up”. But almost two weeks after the first vaccine was… Read More »