(Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)
The group, led by Professor Christopher Blyth from the University of Western Australia and the affable Victorian deputy chief medical officer, Allen Cheng, no doubt thought the decision would save lives. The problem is the recommendation, coupled with unfortunately misleading reports regarding AZ’s effectiveness (real-life results from the UK show almost identical efficacy to the lauded Pfizer vaccine), has led to upwards of a third of Australians being unwilling to take a vaccine.
With the benefit of hindsight, the advisory group appears to have got it wrong. Not with regards to the rate of clotting (which at 1:100,000 is more common than what was predicted) but rather the fatality rate. So far, after more than 1.8 million doses, 24 Australians have reportedly suffered clots but only one person has died. The death occurred before physicians were fully aware of the issue and well before treatments had been refined (plus the victim had severe chronic unde
Press Release – University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia and the French Government are working together with industry and researchers to improve monitoring of space for exploding stars billions of light years away. UWA is working with the Centre National dEtudes …
The University of Western Australia and the French Government are working together with industry and researchers to improve monitoring of space for exploding stars billions of light years away.
UWA is working with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the French Government’s space agency, to install a network of receiver stations across northern Australia. The stations will receive alerts from the Space Variable Objects Monitor satellite in high orbit above Earth. The satellite is sensitive to gamma ray bursts which signal massive stars exploding.
Date Time
New network for mental health research
A new national collaboration to transform the way mental health treatment is developed and tested will be led by Deakin University and partners including The University of Western Australia, with $12 million support from the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
The Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trial Network (MAGNET) will start as a five-year project that will be funded through the MRFF’s Million Minds Mission, as recently announced in the Federal Budget.
Professor Sean Hood, Head of UWA Medical School’s Psychiatry Division, and Osvaldo Almeida, Professor in Psychiatry, also from the UWA Medical School, are among 50 chief investigators involved in the project.
Monday, 24 May 2021, 4:20 pm
The University of Western Australia and the French
Government are working together with industry and
researchers to improve monitoring of space for exploding
stars billions of light years away.
UWA is working
with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the French
Government’s space agency, to install a network of
receiver stations across northern Australia. The stations
will receive alerts from the Space
Variable Objects Monitor satellite in high orbit above
Earth. The satellite is sensitive to gamma ray bursts which
signal massive stars exploding.
Within seconds an
alert will be sent to telescopes, including the UWA Zadko