Sunday, May 5, 2024

Not pursuing your goals during the pandemic is good for your mental health

People who shelved their long-term goals during the pandemic were better able to avoid anxiety and depression, according to a new study.

Expert insight: Excessive social media use worsened adolescent mental health during COVID-19

How does time spent online, and especially social media, affect the brains and behaviours of children and youth?

Covid-19. “The mobilisation of students in the healthcare field has been incredible and essential.”

On the front lines of hospitals’ battle against the coronavirus pandemic, he looks back on his weeks of struggle and the mobilisation of the student healthcare community.

Westminster alumnus-led vaccine manufacturer set to play leading role in large scale production of...

Westminster alumnus Adar Poonawalla, who is the CEO of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer called Serum Institute of India...

Re­search­ers dis­covered the second ‘key’ used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter into hu­man...

To efficiently infect human cells, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is able to use a receptor called Neuropilin-1...

Students have a whale of a time

In March this year tourism companies ground to a halt as New Zealand went into lockdown in the wake of Covid-19.

Smoking associated with increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms

Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to attend hospital than non-smokers, a study has found.

Microbes are becoming more resistant to drugs

Due to the fact that COVID-19 therapy is increasingly based on pharmacological treatment, we are running the risk of speeding up the evolution of drug resistance in microbes.

Experts to discuss what a post-Covid world might look like

In the online event ‘Escaping to a post-Covid world’, a group of University experts from clinical and respiratory medicine to public health, as well as education and social work...

Survey shows three in four Kiwis adopted Covid-19 protective behaviours

Research from Massey University shows an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders support regional (94 per cent) or national lockdowns (81 per cent) if there are new Covid-19 infections in New Zealand.
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