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Current advice for COVID-19 health workers is based on the assumption that droplets bearing the virus travel no further than 2 metres and do not remain in the air. The body of published evidence suggests otherwise in a landmark Australian and US scientific review.

Cochrane has published a fast-tracked update to a 2019 Cochrane Review on personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers - "Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff". The full review is now published in the Cochrane Library. 

A team of Johns Hopkins experts has created a clinical guidebook to help hospitals rapidly scale up their ability to deliver so-called convalescent plasma therapy, which leverages immune system components found in the plasma portion of blood from people who have recovered from COVID-19.

Although health care workers' physical safety is paramount, their psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being are also key to their ability to function under conditions that are unlike any they've faced before, according to three experts in physician wellness.

As the COVID-19 virus situation continues to unfold, Queensland Clincal Guidelines (QCG), the Statewide Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Network, as well as scientists from The University of Western Australia’s lactation research team have put together information to help doctors and health professionals support breastfeeding mothers by outlining the known facts and providing evidence-based recommendations.

Intensive care units are at the frontline of the struggle against coronavirus. Now, doctors have issued the first guidance on what works and what doesn't in treating critically-ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care.

At the start of each year Queensland hospital Medical Education Units provide orientation programs for Junior Doctors and Registrars. Many Junior Doctors experience high levels of anxiety at this time and orientation is critical to a successful transition to the workplace and delivering safe patient care – from learning clinical and procedural skills through to the everyday administrative nuts-and-bolts of working in a busy hospital environment.

Artificial intelligence allows coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be detected and differentiated from community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) on chest computed tomography (CT), according to a study published this month in the journal Radiology.

Twins born through IVF have quadruple the chance of having a congenital heart problem, according to research emerging from South Australia.

After 50 years of research and the testing of over 1,000 drugs, there is new hope for preserving brain cells for a time after stroke. Treating acute ischemic stroke patients with an experimental neuroprotective drug, combined with a surgical procedure to remove the clot improves outcomes as shown by clinical trial results published in The Lancet.