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Malaria vaccine rolled out in Cameroon; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

After a 60-year quest, childhood malaria vaccinations were administered to infants and toddlers in Cameroon on 22 January, the world’s first routine immunization against the disease. Remarkably, the RTS,S or Mosquirix, made by GlaxoSmithKline and approved for general use in 2021 by the World Health Organization (WHO) reduces all kinds of deaths among children – …

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COVID-19 surge flying under the radar? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

Is a surge of COVID happening? With lots of folks taking at-home tests and not reporting the results, how do we know the data that’s out there is accurate? “The most reliable data shows that a surge is happening,” says Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport. Testing data may not be as …

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Wolbachia trials show promising results for reducing Dengue; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

Looking at the year ahead in 2024, a strategy of releasing lab-modified mosquitoes to prevent the spread of dengue fever is poised to scale up after a series of successes. The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, developed and tested by the non-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP), carry the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, which blocks them from transmitting certain viruses and spreads …

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Opioid addiction settlement reached with US Consultancy firm; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fuelled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its work for drug companies including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. https://www.reuters.com/legal/mckinsey-pay-78-million-us-opioid-settlement-with-health-plans-2023-12-30/ The settlement was disclosed in papers filed on Friday (29 Dec) in federal court …

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WHO declares JN.1 COVID-19 variant a “variant of interest; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

For the first time since it declared an end to the global Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 on 05 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called the COVID-19 variant JN.1 a standalone “variant of interest.” WHO has gone further to state that JN.1 will drive an increase in cases of the virus. https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/covid-strain-jn-1-now-variant-interest-who-says-2023a1000w73? JN.1 …

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Gavi pledges $1 billion for vaccine production in Africa; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has committed up to $1 billion to bolster Africa’s ability to sustainably produce its own doses of lifesaving vaccines. Manufacturers based in Africa produce only 1% of the vaccine doses used on the continent. https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-ai-rules-europe-vaccines-africa-and-union-nih-early-career-researchers? Last week, Gavi announced that with money left over from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility—an …

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Biden weighs in on drug costs in US; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

US President Joe Biden has stepped into a long-running debate about whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has legal authority to override an exclusive patent license granted to drug developers if they charge too much for treatments that relied on agency-funded research. In draft policy guidance, the Biden administration says federal agencies would be …

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DRC faced with largest outbreak of mpox on record; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was experiencing its largest, most deadly outbreak of mpox ever, with more than 12,000 suspected cases so far this year and nearly 600 deaths, far surpassing those from the global outbreak of the same viral disease over the past …

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UK approves CRISPR gene therapy for SCD; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

In a world first, U.K. regulators have approved a therapy that uses CRISPR, the Nobel Prize–winning gene-editing tool invented in 2012. The treatment has been shown to help people with beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease, both inherited blood disorders that involve defects in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin. It relies on removing blood stem cells …

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Genetic editing, the answer to bad cholesterol? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

A technique for precisely rewriting the genetic code directly in the body has slashed “bad” cholesterol levels—possibly for life—in three people prone to dangerously high levels of the artery-clogging fat. The feat relied on a blood infusion of a so-called base editor, designed to disable a liver protein, PCSK9, that regulates cholesterol. https://www.science.org/content/article/base-editing-a-new-form-of-gene-therapy-sharply-lowers-bad-cholesterol? “It is …

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