A Smarter, Better Fight in the Next Pandemic
Roundly seen as a triumph of self-interest and collective failure, the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic proved that countries…
Diagnostics not Just Insulin Needed to Fight Diabetes
The global rise of diabetes is fast outpacing efforts to address health care gaps, and today, more than 3 in…
Meeting the Moment: The Introduction of PCV in Somalia
Globally, 165 countries use the powerful pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) to prevent a serious form of pneumonia, as well as…
Dispatches from ICFP 2022 in Pattaya City, Thailand
Thailand Takeaways – November 22, 2022 Image The ICFP2022 Tuk Tuk, Pattaya, Thailand, November 15, 2022. The International Conference on…
India is preparing for another COVID surge but low vaccine coverage leaves it vulnerable
The first wave of COVID-19 in India – in the summer of 2020 – was efficiently flattened by a rapid…
The Untold Global Health Stories of 2023 Contest
Do you know an important global health story thats been overlooked by the media and deserves special notice? The Consortium…
COVID vaccines: how to speed up rollout in poorer countries
COVID-19 vaccine production has scaled up significantly. Global output is now estimated to be over 1.5 billion doses a month,…
The rise of commercial milk formulas matters for women and children
Infant formula sales have doubled between 2005 and 2019. 279photo Studio/ Shutterstock Breastfeeding can play an especially important role in…
Polio was recently detected in sewage in the UK – here’s what else scientists look for in our wastewater
We recently learned that poliovirus had been detected in sewage in north and east London between February and May 2022.…
No PCR, no problem: how COVID can be diagnosed with X-rays
It sounds simple, but to treat someone you suspect has COVID, you need to confirm they are actually infected with…
Antimicrobial resistance now causes more deaths than HIV/AIDS and malaria worldwide – new study
Some estimates suggest antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Fahroni/ Shutterstock Antimicrobial resistance is spreading…
A year of COVID vaccines: how the UK pinned its hopes on the jab – and why those hopes are under threat
A year ago, Margaret Keenan made history. On December 8 2020, she became the first person in the world to…