UN General Assembly hears call for worldwide pandemic warning system
Participants in a panel headlined, Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Early Warning System for Global…
Seven ways to protect your health when cooking with gas
Cooking can pollute the air inside your house to such an extent that breathing in…
How a century-old vaccine is being used against everything from cancer to autoimmune diseases
In March 2020, as the UK was preparing to go into lockdown, two new trials…
Education: More investment in school health, nutrition, will realize childhood potential
It is estimated that some 584 million children have limited or no access to basic…
Reduce pollution to combat ‘superbugs’ and other anti-microbial resistance
The study focuses on the environmental dimensions of AMR, which occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi,…
What we’ve learned from intentionally infecting people with COVID
When COVID began to spread rapidly in 2020, sending the UK and other countries into…
Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against tuberculosis – new study
Tuberculosis, humanity’s greatest infectious killer, is caused by bacteria that usually affect the lungs but…
Five reasons physical activity is important for cancer patients
You might know that physical activity can help lower your risk of getting many common…
NHS plans to expand ‘virtual wards’ – but who will staff them?
To tackle ever-increasing hospital waiting times, the government is reforming the way the NHS provides…
WHO launches bid to tackle inequalities behind global breast cancer threat
Each year, more than 2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the…