Hospitals and Healthcare

The head of pathology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has autopsied dozens of patients with COVID-19. On her table, she says, the signs of the virus are clear.

Do not demonise. To optimise the vaccine rollout, all of us must show respect to those who are unsure about inoculations, says behavioural strategist Will Hanmer-Lloyd

AMA president Tony Bartone said government and media must act now to ensure immunisation science is communicated above and beyond conspiracy theories.

For more than a month, Samoa has been battling a measles outbreak of huge proportions. Things are very slowly starting to improve.

More than 60 people, including many children, have died as a measles outbreak sweeps the island nation. How big is the problem and where else in the world is measles on the march?

As concern grows about the spread of COVID vaccine misinformation, experts are calling for a new approach: inoculating people against misinformation by exposing them to the common tricks and strategies of persuasion.

Back when he was a boy in the 50's, writes Charles McNair, there was a similarly terrifying disease afoot in the US: polio. It came "with a thunderclap of fear," it's other name infantile paralysis, led to lockdowns -- as with coronavirus -- and left people with disabilities, sometimes sending them into iron lungs to breathe. And worse. Then ... a vaccine.

When the virus arrived on its shores, the Pacific island nation was grievously unprepared. It had left the door to contagion wide open, and thousands of children have suffered.

There's been a 30 per cent rise in measles cases globally.