Posts by VIVA! Communications
Telum Talks To… Emma Thompson, Managing Partner, Spurwing Communications & Kirsten Bruce, Principal, VIVA! Communications
Telum recently chatted with Emma Thompson from Spurwing Communications in Singapore and Kirsten Bruce from Australia’s VIVA! Communications about their agencies and being part of global agency partnership GLOBALHealthPR. Can you tell us more about GLOBALHealthPR and how the network operates? Kirsten: GLOBALHealthPR (GHPR) is the world’s largest partnership of independently owned health and science communication agencies. Our global network…
Read MoreInfections raise risk of mental disorders in kids
Infections like bronchitis in children and adolescents have been linked with an increased risk of developing a mental illness later in life, a study has shown. In the Jama Psychiarty study, researchers found being hospitalised for a serious infection increased the risk of hospital contact due to mental disorders by 84 per cent. The risk…
Read MoreFlu vaccine prevents one in five deaths and ICU admissions, study finds
People vaccinated against influenza experience less serious flu symptoms and are less likely to end up in the Intensive Care Unit or die from the illness, compared to those who are not vaccinated, a study has revealed. According to the study out of the University of Barcelona, 30 per cent of patients who were admitted…
Read MoreLaunch of multidisciplinary alliance aiming to curb Asia Pacific’s fragility fractures
A ground-breaking multi-stakeholder alliance charged with countering fragility fractures threatening the world’s most populated, and fastest ageing region, will be unveiled in Sydney, Australia today. Formation of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance coincides with an article published in MJA Insight calling for an urgent, cross-disciplinary, multi-sector response to the mounting medical emergency facing Asia’s…
Read MoreCracking the genetic code of bipolar disorder
Today, November 20, 2018, VIVA! had the pleasure of partnering with QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute to launch the Australian Genetics of Bipolar Disorder Study. The study comprises the Australian arm of the world’s largest of its kind to date. The ground-breaking study hopes to identify the genes that predispose people to bipolar disorder, a…
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