Urbanisation in South Asia has increased since the turn of the century both in terms of population and build environment. This growth, though modest compared with other regions in Asia, also reflects increased diversity in the region economically, socially, and environm...

There is no doubt that the covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the tourism industry. On a global level, it brought international travel in 2020 back to numbers similar to 30 years ago (UNWTO, 2020) and UNWTO data show that between January and May 2021 i...

BACKGROUND: The aim of the current study was to determine if treatment with senicapoc, improves the PaO 2 /FiO 2 ratio in patients with COVID-19 and severe respiratory insufficiency. METHODS: Investigator-initiated, randomized, open-label, phase II trial in four intensi...

COVID-19 is treated with antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) targeting SARS-CoV-2 viral RNAs or human ACE2 RNA.

Recognising dependency as a fundamental aspect of existence and activating Kittay’s reciprocity principle, ‘doulia’, we investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on student carers at an Australian university, to what extent teaching staff care for student carers and which ped...

BACKGROUND: In a randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial, bamlanivimab, a SARS-CoV-2-neutralizing monoclonal antibody, given in combination with remdesivir, did not improve outcomes among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 based on an early futility assessment.O...

PurposeThis article lays out some conceptual considerations of how dynamic accountability and risk reporting practices could be tailored during and after a global pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper seeks to foster the debate on the crucial role of...