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A new study of genetic testing of samples collected from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan does not provide definitive clues about COVID origins.
We're joined on the podcast by Richard Holden, to talk about the book and also Australia's economic outlook, on what has been a big week for economic news.
As of late September 2024, homicides in Philadelphia are down 40% compared with 2023.
There is an epidemic of isolation gripping the United States, health experts say, with the resulting loneliness disproportionately impacting men and leading to concrete health issues.
The first wind phone appeared in Japan in 2010, and the concept has since spread around the world.
The new COVID variant XEC may be spreading faster than other variants, but it is not a radically different variant.
The TGA is considering an updated COVID vaccine, which would be better matched to current variants.
Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala Harris win the White House in November?
Researchers developed a new mouse model that replicates long COVID-19 more accurately than current models. Their findings could lead to new treatments.
Infectious diseases can spill over from animals to humans as well as spill back. Each cross-species transmission gives pathogens a chance to evolve and spread even further.
Summer 2024 saw a big surge of COVID-19 cases. While COVID-19 is not the emergency it once was, it’s still a health threat, and we’d be wise to reduce our risk of getting it.
The summer 2024 COVID-19 wave is a good reminder that it’s important to get vaccinated with the updated shot.
Patients with lower socioeconomic status often have more negative healthcare experiences.
The annual symposium brought the world’s central bankers together in Wyoming.
The H5N1 virus has infected about 900 people since 2003, and more than half of them died. But so far there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.
Written during the pandemic, the book is a dizzying exploration of time and the very human need for meaningful connection.
The behaviour of modern humankind has played a large part in the advent of new communicable diseases.
We calculated lost productivity due to long COVID. The impacts were greatest among people aged 30 to 49.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Professor of Research Ethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia