4 lessons from the life of global health visionary Paul Farmer
By: Keren Landman The death of global health visionary Paul Farmer on February 21 came at a bleak moment for…
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Woman cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
GHealth News – A patient with leukaemia in the United States has become the first woman and the third person…
COVID Pushed Global Health Institutions to Their Limits
By: Lawrence O. Gostin Moments of existential crisis can turn into opportunities for bold reform. World War II led to…
Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Severe COVID-19
GHealth News – People with a vitamin D deficiency are more likely to have a severe or critical case of COVID-19, according…
WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19
WHO has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which…
MIT is Developing an All-In-One Means of Diabetes Treatment
MIT engineers are working on a new kind of device that could streamline the process of blood glucose measurement and…
Do not assume COVID pandemic reaching ‘end game’, warns WHO
Conditions are ripe for Covid-19 to mutate into more new variants, and it is dangerous to assume the pandemic is…
Indonesia to push for new global health agency, president says
Jakarta (AFP) – Indonesia will push for the creation of a new global health agency while the country holds the presidency…
Omicron won’t be the last Covid variant
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said the pandemic will not end as the omicron variant subsides in some countries,…
10 key global health moments from 2021
It has been a year of colossal efforts in global health. Countries battled COVID-19, which claimed more lives in 2021 than in 2020,…