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Vaccines, variants and infection: The position this winter

Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update, Mental Health, NHS, Nursing
How to tackle the nursing crisis
How to tackle the nursing crisis: For many people the social restrictions experienced during lockdowns will have had long-lasting consequences, increasing feelings of loneliness, stress and depression. But throughout the …
Australasia, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Cell fitness can predict COVID outcomes
Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known …
Australasia, Global Reach, Infection/Disease, Innovation
Start-up gets backing for liver disease treatment
A University of Queensland start-up company, developing a potential new treatment for obesity-related liver disease, has secured a seed investment of $1.3 million from IP Group, a UK-based intellectual property …
Australasia, Cancer
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation for …
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients: A physician scientist whose research focuses on an important but overlooked problem in cancer biology has been awarded …
Neurology
New understanding of how brain cells talk
Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as …