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A health worker prepares to administer vaccine last month in Ambassel District. Credit: Solomon Yimer

No mountain high enough: Ethiopian vaccinators climb to reach missed-out children

7 Feb 2023

5 min read

Vaccine campaigns Zero-dose children

Guinea worms are long, white parasites that emerge from the legs of infected people through painful blisters. Credit: CDC/Wikimedia Commons

Guinea worm: A nasty parasite is nearly eradicated, but the push for zero cases will require patience

6 Feb 2023

5 min read

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Researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature. Credit: nature.com

Nature article charges waived for global South authors

6 Feb 2023

4 min read

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A nurse gives gives medicine, Ivermectin, against onchocerciasis or river blindness. Credit: Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: what the country is doing about it

3 Feb 2023

6 min read

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The black rat, or ship rat, was thought to have helped transmit the Black Death. Credit: Shutterstock / Carlos Aranguiz

The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all

3 Feb 2023

6 min read

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Woman in a laboratory. Credit: Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels

New TB vaccines could produce substantial health and economic benefits in coming decades

3 Feb 2023

4 min read

Tuberculosis Vaccine development Videos

Hands pumping hand sanitizer. Credit: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

COVID-19 is still a global health emergency. What does that mean?

2 Feb 2023

8 min read

COVID-19 Pandemic preparedness

Even after the pandemic is declared over, COVID-19 will cast a long shadow over the lives of many. Credit: Niklas Hamann on Unsplash

What happens when you don’t recover from COVID-19?

2 Feb 2023

6 min read

The long tail COVID-19 Vaccine safety

Moderna is testing an mRNA vaccine in combination with pembrolizumab to treat melanoma. Credit: Javier Zayas Photography/Moment via Getty Images

Moderna’s experimental cancer vaccine treats but doesn’t prevent melanoma – a biochemist explains how it works

2 Feb 2023

6 min read

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Most smartphones come with built-in health apps. Credit: PhotoMIX Company

Will Your Smartphone Be the Next Doctor’s Office?

1 Feb 2023

6 min read

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A nurse with face mask and gloves looks at a chart. Credit: Laura James on Pexels

Eliminating neglected diseases in Africa: there are good reasons for hope

1 Feb 2023

5 min read

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Clinicians Sudani Abdi Awad and Sahra Ali giving the MMR vaccine shot to a child in Derkhale Ward, Banissa Constituency. Credit: Mohamed Ali, Mandera County press.

Curbing measles in Kenya’s conflict-troubled Mandera County

31 Jan 2023

4 min read

Measles Conflict & humanitarian Routine immunisation

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an Indigenous hospital and the Indigenous health support house in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, on Jan. 21. Credit: © Ricardo Stuckert/Palácio do Planalto/Agência Brasil.

Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis

31 Jan 2023

7 min read

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Africa is most vulnerable to climate change despite having contributed the least to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse-gas emissions. Credit: Jonathan Bowers on Unsplash

Africa’s Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis

27 Jan 2023

4 min read

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For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug,” by Nathan Vardi (W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 288 pages)

Book Review: Behind Wall Street’s Huge Gamble on Cancer Drugs

27 Jan 2023

7 min read

Book club Cross-posts Vaccine development

Intent to vaccinate cannot be used to predict uptake. Siphiwe Sibeko/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: COVID experience highlights conspiracies, mistrust and the role of the media

27 Jan 2023

5 min read

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