Ben Barker has been living his life far more cautiously than most during the past two years,but a new drug is set to help immunocompromised people such as him.
Health authorities pushed back the deadline for workers in vulnerable industries to receive a third COVID vaccine dose just days before the mandate was due to come into effect and after the state recorded 9391 new cases and 16 deaths.
Fewer than two-thirds of the nation’s 190,000 aged care residents have received a booster shot,leaving almost 80,000 exposed to serious illness or death from COVID-19 as Omicron sweeps through the sector.
Biotech giant CSL makes countless life-saving therapies,but there’s one medicine it hopes gets thrown out before it ever has to be used.
Australians are being urged to get a COVID-19 booster shot. But what does the data tell us about the effectiveness of the vaccines on offer and about the ideal interval between doses?
Making the world safer and healthier means member states of the World Health Organisation must tackle its long-term funding challenge.
Australians waiting for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for medical reasons have hit back at suggestions they held off due to vaccine hesitancy.
Novavax chief commercial officer John Trizzino says the protein-based vaccine could persuade hundreds of thousands of vaccine hesitant Australians to get the jab.
Australia has now shared more than 17.5 million doses – most of which have been locally manufactured AstraZeneca vaccines - with the Pacific and south-east Asia.
Testing sites are struggling to cope with huge demand,partly from interstate travellers who require asymptomatic tests to get border permits.
The first shipment of children’s doses is expected to land in Australia before Christmas ahead of a January rollout.