LATEST DEVELOPMENTS * Victoria announced five new coronavirus deaths, with all of those linked to aged care outbreaks. There have now been 753 deaths across the country. * Victoria reported 63 new cases on Sunday, down slightly from 76 the day before. * The state’s “roadmap” out of lockdown was revealed with metropolitan Melbourne to… Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced it will distribute $ 10 billion in a second round of COVID-19 high impact area funding to hospitals starting next week. The HHS made the announcement through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). As areas across the country see spikes in virus cases and hospitalizations, HHS… Read More »
It was the night before my 21st birthday party and I was in high spirits. For some inexplicable reason, it was decided we should test the idiom of “zxang modn” or more simply put, what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In this case the unstoppable force was my V8 253 Holden… Read More »
You might not have noticed it (there’s a lot going on) but there was some good news last week in a study in JAMA that suggested that racial disparities in extremely premature infants were shrinking. The study looked at more than 20,000 extremely preterm infants (22 to 27 weeks gestation) born from 2002 to 2016.… Read More »
LATEST NEWS ABOUT COVID-19: * 6468 Australians have caught the virus and about 58 per cent of them have recovered. * Average daily infection rates have fallen below one per cent in every state during the past three days except Tasmania, which is at eight per cent. * Australian deaths: 63 (26 in NSW, 14… Read More »
When the brain gets injured, star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes come to the rescue. In the case of glioma — the most common type of primary brain tumor — this protective action comes at a price. A new study published in Neurochemistry International reveals that gliomas alter astrocyte function, which normally prevents the brain from… Read More »