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Medicine has a long history of systematically excluding women from trials of potentially life-saving drugs.
We know vaccines are safe and effective for men and women. We don’t have those answers for pregnant women.
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Now pregnant women find themselves excluded from the life-saving benefits of a COVID-19 vaccination. Because they were not part of clinical trials, we cannot know with certainty if vaccines are safe and effective for them.
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Drop in willingness to get COVID-19 vaccine attributed to lack of exposure to how bad it really is , researcher says
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Australia s success at suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic could be behind a decline in people s willingness to be vaccinated against the virus, according to a university researcher.
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Researchers from CQUniversity found that people s willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 decreased as the pandemic progressed last year
Australia s success at managing and suppressing COVID-19 could be behind it, says one author
The study, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, is based on two surveys conducted in April and August 2020
Follow RT on A team of researchers has developed a new system to image newborn babies’ chests as they take their first breaths, in a breakthrough which could prevent unnecessary interventions, mitigate potential damage and save lives.
The group of researchers from Australia, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada developed a non-invasive, extremely delicate sensor-belt which they wrapped around the newborn infants.
They recorded over 1,400 breaths taken by 17 infants delivered through an elective caesarean section. The images captured the process of lung aeration, or the switch from having the placenta exchange gases for the infant to inflating and breathing through their own lungs.