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Increased digital screen use, face masks and winter weather combine to form a triple threat to eye health: The dry eye triad. Here’s how to combat the resulting eye fatigue, irritation and discomfort.
What did Melbourne and Victoria get right, and wrong, amid the pandemic?
Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.
Why did migrant agricultural workers suffer so greatly when the government had supposedly taken such care to ensure their safety?
Shared decision-making upholds person-centred care and supports people to take charge of their own health: their views, input and experiences are important contributors to health plans.
For a number of reasons, as time goes on vaccines become less effective. So how do researchers calculate how well vaccines are working?
Until recently the Federal Reserve had been purchasing roughly $120 billion of assets every month to support the US economy. The Fed began scaling back those purchases in November and doubled the pace on Dec. 15.
COVID passes lower the risk of transmission and incentivise vaccine uptake at a time when boosters are desperately needed.
Queer dating apps are leading the way when it comes to being more open about sexual health and health in general.
An expert in global public health answers questions on omircron.
Using trusted messengers, making sure that vaccine information is tailored to those being targeted, and greater flexibility over vaccination timing and venues could all increase uptake.
Conversations and debates about vaccine mandates will continue well into next year as policy-makers balance individual freedom and public well-being.
Trans people have lost access to public spaces and places, which has made it difficult for them to earn their living.
In places with low vaccination rates, COVID-19 has the chance to linger, and variants develop and travel. Without global vaccine equity, this entirely predictable pattern will repeat itself.
The narrative of the Great Resignation is that workers hate their jobs and are desperate to quit. The data tells a somewhat different story.
A third vaccine dose raises protection against omicron to 75%, early data suggests.
One of the ways the Omicron variant is different from other variants is the sheer number of mutations in the spike protein. Does this make it a super-variant?
Government support programs like CERB and EI provide a safety net. During COVID-19, sex workers accessed various financial support — future policy needs to address the rights and security of sex workers.
A vaccine manufacturing facility will be built in Victoria to produce mRNA vaccines under an in-principle agreement between the federal government, the state government and global mRNA company Moderna
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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