Heart Foundation
The Heart Foundation is calling for entries in the 2021 Active Australia Innovation Challenge, which will award grants valued at $10,000 each for innovative community-based projects designed to get Aussies moving.
Up to 20 grants are on offer this year, which is twice as many as in previous challenges.
Heart Foundation Director of Active Living, Adjunct Professor Trevor Shilton, said physical inactivity is a key risk factor for heart disease, which continues to be the single leading cause of death in Australia.
In 2019, 18,244 Australians died from coronary heart disease, or about one every 29 minutes. It accounted for more than 10 per cent of all deaths that year.
An experimental drug has shown promising results for slowing cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to early results from a clinical trial published recently.
Both of southeastern Connecticut’s hospitals admitted their first COVID-19 patient on March 18, 2020 an event their doctors, nurses and staffs knew was inevitable.
They didn t know much else about the coronavirus disease, which is not to say they were unprepared.
“One of the big challenges was our lack of knowledge about the virus and how it behaved,” Dr. Deidre Gifford, acting commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, said Friday, reflecting on the statewide response to COVID-19. “We were learning about the disease as the pandemic played out. Guidance was evolving in real time.”
At the outset, she said, there were no therapeutics, no vaccines. A lot of cases had to be managed before widespread testing was available. Personal protective equipment, or PPE, was in short supply.
More than 1,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were expected to arrive in the NT this week. The federal government says they haven't because the NT government failed to order them.