Labels will be required to provide detailed warnings about calorie content of all booze and the risk of cancer,liver disease,and drinking while pregnant.
A new analysis of alcohol industry submissions to government has found they’re rife with misrepresentation and bad data.
The disease wasn’t known to spark big outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread easily among people until last May,when dozens of epidemics emerged in Europe,North America and elsewhere.
A new report estimated between 2 and 20 per cent of people suffer long COVID. But there is no concrete data on how many Australians are affected by it,nor the most effective way to treat it.
The patient from Guangdong in China was the third person known to have been infected with a subtype of avian influenza that rarely infects humans.
As evidence shows COVID-19 booster shots for young,healthy people make little difference,experts are questioning whether the government should be offering them free.
The World Health Organisation has updated its guidance on vaccines as the world tries to live with the virus. Not everyone agrees.
An internationally renowned Queensland air-quality expert has warned we have not learned a key lesson from the pandemic.
The official suggested that 80 per cent of China’s population had been infected since virus controls were abruptly dismantled late last year.
Omicron’s more than 650 sub-lineages have acquired new names from mythical creatures but WHO is so far resisting the push to make the virus names catchy.
The official number may still underestimate the death toll.