April 21st, 2021High intensity interval training (HIIT) of under 15 minutes – inclusive of warm up and cool down – yields comparable improvements to interventions meeting the...
This year marks 100 years since the discovery of insulin – the life-saving drug for people living with diabetes. However, only half of people requiring it have access...Weekly Roundup
Early in March, some four weeks after the first AstraZeneca vaccine was administered in Europe, The Daily Telegraph reports that little signals – like flares –...Weekly Roundup
The latest antibiotic pipeline analysis from the World Health Organisation (WHO) concludes that there has been little progress made in efforts to develop new,...Occupational Health
The first large study showing that leisure time physical activity and occupational physical activity have opposite, and independent, associations with cardiovascular...International
China's top disease control official has said the efficacy of the country's COVID vaccines is low, in a rare admission of weakness. BBC News reports that Gao Fu added...
April 7th, 2021In response to US government concerns over data used, AstraZeneca released updated information on its COVID-19 clinical trial, showing an effectiveness rate of 76%...
Africa urgently needs more COVID-19 vaccine supplies as deliveries begin to slow down and initial batches are nearly exhausted in some countries. The continent has so...
March 17th, 2021South Africa has a far higher number of people with tuberculosis (TB) than previously thought and many of them have not been diagnosed or treated, found the country's...
Under pressure from the WHO, Human Rights Watch and calls for Tanzania's expulsion from the Commonwealth, President John Magufuli's government may be budging from its...
