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New research will estimate the proportion of the population who have been infected with COVID-19 - even if they didn’t have symptoms or get a test.

Sexual consent education and how to do it well

To change sexual consent culture we must change education programs to be sex-positive and inclusive, UNSW research shows. 

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Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.

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Academics in the fields of climate science, oncology and human rights are honoured in 2022.

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A team from UNSW's Kirby Institute and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney have uncovered an immune profile for long COVID, potentially paving the way for tailored treatment for those with ongoing symptoms.

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The public has been left to their own devices as all our previous safeguards collapse around us. We urgently need a “vaccines-plus” strategy to flatten the curve.

Most read medicine stories 2021

For the second year running, it was no surprise readers were still hungry for COVID-19 stories as new findings and variants emerged in 2021. 

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Despite Australia’s long history of a secular government, this bill might create a future that segregates people based on their faith and beliefs.

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The pioneering researchers have been honoured for excellence in biological sciences, physical sciences and innovation. 

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Forty years after the first case of AIDS was described in the United States, the number of people diagnosed with HIV in Australia is at an all-time low.

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