'Gamechanger' drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent
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One third (35%) of people who took a new drug for treating obesity lost more than one-fifth (greater than or equal to 20%) of their total body weight, according to a major global study involving UCL researchers.
The findings from the large-scale international trial, published today in the New England Journal for Medicine, are being hailed as a...
Inside CSL, where Australia's Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are being made
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At the back of a building in Melbourne's northern outskirts is a long, narrow room roughly the area of a tennis court.
Technicians and operators — fully decked out in protective onesies, gloves, goggles, hairnets and masks — bustle about, tending to a vast array of gleaming stainless steel equipment and what looks like kilometres...
Could mass testing for COVID-19 prevent Australia's next coronavirus lockdown?
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Austria, Slovakia and Luxembourg have done it.
China shut down an entire city to do it as well.
Mass testing of an entire population to detect both symptomatic and non-symptomatic coronavirus infections has also been trialled by some cities in the United Kingdom.
There is a school of thought that conducting such large-scale health screenin...
China’s Inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate is safe and provokes immune response, say preliminary clinical trial results
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A new study published in The Lancet on Thursday found that an inactivated vaccine candidate, called BBIBP-CorV, was safe and provoked an immune response in healthy individuals. This is the first study of an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine to include participants over 60 years of age.
The BBIBP-CorV vaccine is being developed by the Beijing Ins...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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A change in diet is part of treating inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Now researchers have tracked specific changes in the gut microbiome and the metabolic products they produce as being a likely important part of remission.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are chronic inflammatory conditions of gast...
Victorian antibody research could be key coronavirus vaccine alternative
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Victorian scientists have had a breakthrough in using antibodies to prevent coronavirus from infecting human cells in what could be a crucial alternative to a vaccine.
Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been given $500,000 from the Victorian Government to continue developing antibody-based therapies for the treatment and p...
Origins of immune system mapped, opening doors for new cancer immunotherapies
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A first cell atlas of the human thymus gland could lead to new immune therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and Ghent University, Belgium, mapped thymus tissue through the human lifespan to understand how it develops and makes vital immune cells called T cells. In the...
Scientists breach brain barriers to attack tumors
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The brain is a sort of fortress, equipped with barriers designed to keep out dangerous pathogens. But protection comes at a cost: These barriers interfere with the immune system when faced with dire threats such glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor for which there are few effective treatments.
Yale researchers have found a novel way to circumven...
Coffee drinkers have healthier gut microbiotas
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New research suggests that heavy coffee drinkers have healthier compositions of bacteria in their guts.
More and more research is unpacking the health benefits of drinking coffee. Drinking just one cup may fight off unhealthy fat, ease inflammation associated with obesity, or even protect the brain into old age.
Furthermore, drinking at least...
Measles outbreak worsens as three more cases confirmed after visit by infected NZ tourist
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Three more cases of measles have been confirmed in Perth in what health authorities have dubbed an "unprecedented" cluster of cases in the city's south.
It brings the number of confirmed cases in Perth to 11, including babies too young to be vaccinated.
Another is a teenager from Baldivis Secondary College.
Authorities believ...
