Canadian researchers have recently published the results of a major study that was conducted to assess any association between exposure to 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza vaccination during pregnancy and negative health outcomes seen in early childhood. Over...
Prominent economist and health services manager, Dr Stephen Duckett (Program Director of Health at the Grattan Institute) has advocated for better use of the pharmacist skill set in Australia, suggesting that by collaborating with GPs, pharmacists could (and logically...
A study of 562 faecal samples collected from Australian Silver Gulls (seagulls) has demonstrated that these birds often extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant (21.7%) and fluoroquinolone-resistant (23.8%) E. coli bacteria. Genome sequencing revealed that E....
Antipsychotic drugs are widely used for purposes other than the treatment of psychosis – in aged and extended care facilities this often means that this group of drugs is used to manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, even though there is now...
As bad as a bout of shingles might be for anyone, to a person who has had autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), an episode of herpes zoster is associated with significant morbidity. A recent study has assessed a recombinant zoster vaccine in...
