Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Pandemic vaccine trials: expedite, but don't rush
Published 2020It has been proposed that the urgency of having a vaccine as a response to SARS-CoV-2 is so great, given the potential health, economic and social benefits that we should override the established steps in the research ...Article -
Supporting black lives ‘mattering’ with flexible health care
Published 2020Black lives ‘mattering’ should mean intrinsically supporting feasible healthcare options for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This requires reimagining outmoded, ‘neo‐colonial’ type models of care with implicit ...Article -
Science and art of anticancer drug dosing: nine steps to personalised therapy
Published 2020Cancer medicine is a challenging field with an increasing range of promising therapies and combinations. Increasingly, personalised medicine shows promise to improve cancer outcomes – response, symptom control, survival ...Article -
Moving Toward a Global Age‐Friendly Ecosystem
Published 2020The designation of "age friendly" has clearly engaged the attention of scholars and leading experts in the field of aging. A search of PubMed references citing the term produced 15 results in the 5-year period from 2006 ...Article -
Discovery of drugs to treat cytokine storm-induced cardiac dysfunction using human cardiac organoids
Published 2020SUMMARY SARS-CoV2 infection leads to cardiac injury and dysfunction in 20-30% of hospitalized patients 1 and higher rates of mortality in patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease 2,3 . Inflammatory factors released ...Preprint