In what could be yet another blow to South Africaʼs struggling sugar industry and beverage companies, leading international scholars want SA to double its sugar tax to...Technology
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have designed a small tabletop device that can detect SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample in...International
Research published this week by the Center for Global Development in the United States found that COVID-19 has likely killed several million people in India –...
April 14th, 2021There is ample evidence that governments can be effective economic actors to create capacity and markets through public investment and public procurement in the domestic...
March 17th, 2021Until a month ago, the gold-standard guidelines on health sector mask usage were based on the belief that N95 masks should be reserved for those performing...
Scientists and public health experts have long known that certain individuals, termed "super-spreaders," can transmit COVID-19 with incredible efficiency and devastating...Coronavirus
Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid-turnaround COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks — even if those tests are...
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...
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...
Scientists have developed a score that can accurately predict which patients will develop a severe form of COVID-19. The study is led by researchers at RCSI University...
