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Pew announces support for the 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the six pairs of researchers who will make up its 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators.

15 Sep 2021

For My Lung Health campaign wins 2021 Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards

For My Lung Health, the joint American Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) campaign, is the winner of this year's Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards in the respiratory category.

15 Sep 2021

Researchers quantify the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria

For the first time in more than two decades, a team from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and University of Oxford have quantified the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria.

15 Sep 2021

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

On the campaign trail last year, Joe Biden promised that, if elected president, he would get covid-19 under control. Since assuming office in January, Biden has continued to pledge that his administration would do its best to get Americans vaccinated against covid and allow life to return to some semblance of normal.

15 Sep 2021

Health leaders issue an urgent call for vaccine equity globally and in Africa

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and a group of global health leaders today issued an urgent call for vaccine equity globally and in Africa in particular.

14 Sep 2021

CRG launches Europe's first continent-wide PhD training program for medical doctors

The Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona has today launched Europe's first continent-wide PhD training programme for medical doctors.

13 Sep 2021

Breakthrough discovery could pave the way for new non-opioid painkillers to treat neuropathic pain

Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that could pave the way for the development of novel non-opioid painkillers to safely and effectively treat neuropathic pain.

8 Sep 2021

HKBU scientists find significant link between PM2.5 exposure and neurological disorders

A comprehensive, systematic meta-analysis conducted by HKBU scientists found a significant association between exposure to PM2.5, i.e., fine particulates with equivalent diameters of less than 2.5 microns suspended in the air, and neurological disorders.

7 Sep 2021

New Health Declaration published with commitments from all G20 countries

G20 Health Ministers have united to pledge global action to improve future health security, increase vaccine confidence and tackle antimicrobial resistance.

6 Sep 2021

Health Secretary urges G20 countries to recognize UK's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial participants

The rights of vaccine clinical trial volunteers must be safeguarded to help protect everyone against future health crises, Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid will tell G20 health leaders in Rome today (Sunday 5 September).

5 Sep 2021

Association between COVID-19 mitigation measures and preterm birth rate in China

A new study published in British Medical Journal Global Health addresses the effect of COVID-19 mitigation measures on the preterm birth rate in China.

31 Aug 2021

SARS-CoV-2 animal origin: What we know so far

Scientists at the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in the United Kingdom and the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, China, have shed light on the animal origin of SARS-CoV-2, tracing back to the first outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the infectious agent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China in 2002 to 2003.

31 Aug 2021

Low-sodium alternative for salt lowers stroke risk

Replacing salt with a low-sodium alternative lowers the risk of stroke in people with high blood pressure or prior stroke, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2021 and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

30 Aug 2021

Oral bacteria of wild Swedish brown bears reveal history of human antibiotic use

An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of their application.

27 Aug 2021

Advancing quality improvement initiatives to address the root causes of health inequity

According to the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, poor-quality healthcare contributes to more deaths globally than lack of access to care.

26 Aug 2021

Hyfe’s smartphone cough-tracking app used in a groundbreaking epidemiological research

Hyfe, a cough monitoring smartphone app and digital diagnostics tool developed by an international team of scientists and public health professionals, recently announced that their technology is now being incorporated into groundbreaking research in Spain in partnership with the University of Navarra, and involving over 800 participants.

26 Aug 2021

BioPlx sets out to control and combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Antimicrobial Resistance is "one of the greatest threats to society, human and animal health, and economic prosperity." Those are the unequivocal words regarding the gravity of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria from the National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education.

26 Aug 2021

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, detection, treatment and control, led by Imperial College London and WHO, and published today in The Lancet.

25 Aug 2021

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy have been awarded a five-year, $14.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue leading and expand their research on HIV treatment and care in five Central African nations.

24 Aug 2021

Study identifies a novel potential biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma

Aging-US published "Comprehensive analysis of the competing endogenous circRNA-lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network and identification of a novel potential biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma" which reported that there is still a lack of comprehensive analysis of the circular RNA -long non-coding RNA -miRNA-mRNA ceRNA network in hepatocellular carcinoma.

23 Aug 2021

Global Health News and Research

Pew announces support for the 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators

For My Lung Health campaign wins 2021 Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards

Researchers quantify the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

Health leaders issue an urgent call for vaccine equity globally and in Africa

CRG launches Europe's first continent-wide PhD training program for medical doctors

Breakthrough discovery could pave the way for new non-opioid painkillers to treat neuropathic pain

HKBU scientists find significant link between PM2.5 exposure and neurological disorders

New Health Declaration published with commitments from all G20 countries

Health Secretary urges G20 countries to recognize UK's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial participants

Association between COVID-19 mitigation measures and preterm birth rate in China

SARS-CoV-2 animal origin: What we know so far

Low-sodium alternative for salt lowers stroke risk

Oral bacteria of wild Swedish brown bears reveal history of human antibiotic use

Advancing quality improvement initiatives to address the root causes of health inequity

Hyfe’s smartphone cough-tracking app used in a groundbreaking epidemiological research

BioPlx sets out to control and combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

Study identifies a novel potential biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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