Science paper Friday, 15 September 2017 Background information below. More high-res images available below. Wastewater, tourism, and trade are moving microbes around the globe at an unprecedented scale. As we travel the world we leave billions of bacteria at every stop. As with rats, foxes, tigers and pandas, some microbes are winners, spreading around the…
World TB Day on March 24 reminds us of the growing TB threat Scientists available for interview in English and Bahasa Indonesia for World TB Day. Read the release in Bahasa Indonesia. More images below. Better vaccines are needed for the global fight against tuberculosis (TB). The Global Fund reports an estimated nine million new…
Hari TB Sedunia (25 Maret) mengingatkan kita mengenai ancaman TB yang terus meningkat Vaksin-vaksin yang lebih baik dibutuhkan agar dapat melawan TB di tingkat global. Global Fund melaporkan sekitar 9 juta kasus TB baru muncul setiap tahunnya, menempati posisi kedua sebagai penyakit menular paling mematikan di dunia setelah AIDS. Menurut Badan Kesehatan Dunia (WHO), lebih…
The Aussie hearing system you can set up yourself or for your gran: online and on your phone From the bionic ear to the ‘audiologist in your pocket’ – high performance, low cost hearing for the four million of us who don’t want to admit our hearing loss Images and background information below. An Australian…
Today is World Hepatitis Day and it brings good news and bad news. The bad news is that hepatitis is still a serious condition which affects nearly 400,000 Australians putting them on a course to serious liver disease. “The good news is that treatment is now less invasive, of shorter duration, much more effective—and diagnosis…
Australian and Vietnamese medical researchers are meeting in Sydney this week to plan their next move against tuberculosis (TB), a disease that once was Australia’s top killer and still kills 54,000 people each year in Vietnam. The researchers are coming together in Australia to share their progress and build stronger ties in fighting a disease…
Centenary Institute’s Prof Chris Semsarian available for comment on sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Two fit, young professional footballers – apparently completely healthy – have suffered sudden heart attacks mid-match in recent weeks.
TB used to be Australia’s top killer and in much of the world it still is. Australian experts available to talk about a scourge killing three people every minute.