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Some 115,000 health care workers died from Covid-19 from January 2020 to May of this year, according to a new World Health Organization estimate, as the agency pushed once again …
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As concern mounts over access to Covid-19 remedies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing up to $120 million to accelerate production of generic versions of an experimental Merck …
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Historic yet imperfect. That’s how I think of the World Health Organization’s recent endorsement of the long-awaited malaria vaccine, officially known as RTS,S/AS01, or simply as RTS,S. This recommendation follows …
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With little fanfare and even less notice, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently launched its Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector. During a kick-off event, speakers made …
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Rates of depression and anxiety climbed globally by more than 25% in 2020, a devastating ripple effect of the Covid-19 pandemic that has particularly affected women and young people, according …
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Around the world this spring, country after country awaited their first Covid-19 vaccine shipments. They’d been promised deliveries by COVAX, the ambitious global collaboration set up to give people in …
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The World Health Organization, acting on a recommendation from its scientific advisers, announced Wednesday that it would broadly roll out a much-needed malaria vaccine, saying pilot testing had shown that …
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For the first time, a World Health Organization committee has recommended the global agency form a working group to explore policies for contending with the high prices of medicines that …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has, of course, been devastating over the past year. But by other measures of public health, the year wasn’t quite as calamitous as Bill Gates and Melinda …
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