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Residents locked in an apartment building for the next two weeks in Sydney’s west will be given daily welfare checks, groceries and other services after six people in the complex tested positive for Covid-19. NSW Health is aware of six ...

A radical idea involving a $10m lottery has been proposed to try to fix Australia’s slow Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Under the plan, proposed by Grattan Institute health program director Stephen Duckett, every Australian vaccinated would be eligible to win 10 weekly prizes ...

Dr Karleen Gribble, associate professor at Western Sydney University, has spent the last year studying the different COVID-19 separation policies in maternity wards across the globe.  According to her research, the impact of changing health advice and an absence of ...

New research has challenged the conventional wisdom that women must wait at least 24 months after giving birth to become pregnant again. Curtin University-led research found that the WHO recommendation that women wait two years, in order to reduce the ...

Millions of Greater Sydney residents could remain in lockdown for “at least a month”, according to a leading clinical epidemiologist. Nancy Baxter, a Canadian researcher who is the head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, told the Today ...

Nurse practitioners are calling on the federal government to stop ignoring them and make use of a valuable resource to help fight the pandemic. As the vaccine rollout continues to become unbearably complicated, the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) ...

The COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney shows no signs of slowing down as the delta strain continues to spread through the community, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian extending lockdown measures for another fortnight. The number of people infected has blown out to ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria, or to the performance of ...

A collection of stories paying tribute to the efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives was launched in Melbourne yesterday. Caring and Community: Stories from Aboriginal Nurses and Midwives details the achievements of eleven women who have ...

People who oppose the Covid-19 jab have abused and spat on nurses in disturbing incidents at Victorian vaccination hubs, authorities have revealed. Health Minister Martin Foley revealed shocking details about an incident at Cranbourne vaccine hub where an “anti-vaxxer” made “completely inappropriate ...