China has blocked the arrival of a team from the World Health Organisation investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that their visas had not yet...
December 9th, 2020World AIDS Day this year found us deep amid another pandemic – COVID-19 – writes Prof Linda-Gail Bekker of the University of Cape Town in The Conversation. The...
A second wave of COVID-19 is swamping Europe with daily numbers of confirmed cases, mainly because of increased testing, exceeding their spring peaks, while death rates...
October 28th, 2020Lung health researchers have announced important developments in tuberculosis (TB) research at the Union World Conference. This includes promising data from a clinical...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has submitted applications to the World Health Organisation for an Emergency Use Listing and prequalification of its...International
Fifteen Nobel laureates are among the prominent scientists calling on the UK government to support trials in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with...
October 21st, 2020Professor David Nabarro, the world’s highest-ranking expert on COVID-19, has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not advocate lockdowns, since their...
Darryl Bernstein, partner and head of the Healthcare Industry Group, and Rui Lopes, associate and member of the Healthcare Industry Group at Baker McKenzie in...
October 21st, 2020This week, following a 30-country randomised control trial, the World Health Organisation claimed "conclusive evidence" on the effectiveness of repurposed drugs for the...
Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 detection will be rolled out to all ports of entry in South Africa with immediate effect.
The purpose of this rollout is to effect the...
