Medical tools using photonics developed quicker thanks to new EU Pilot Line. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need to quickly develop diagnostic equipment in the face of a novel threat. Thanks to a dedicated medical pilot production line that gives easy access to prototyping, new medical tools that use photonics to detect major diseases […]
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A study conducted by the University of Melbourne is investigating the impact of Covid-19 on adults. The same study is also taking place in the USA and UK. Concerns about whether people have coped in isolation have prompted a weekly survey to identify how adults living in Australia are dealing with coronavirus (COVID-19) issues such […]
Global status report on preventing violence against children calls for more government action and warns of ‘dramatic impact’ of COVID-19. Half of the world’s children, or approximately 1 billion children each year are affected by physical, sexual or psychological violence, suffering injuries, disabilities and death, because countries have failed to follow established strategies to protect […]
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Brazzaville, 10 June 2020 – COVID-19 continues to spread in Africa since the virus was first detected on the continent in mid-February 2020. More than 200 000 cases have been confirmed so far, with more than 5600 deaths. The pandemic is accelerating – it took 98 days to reach 100 000 cases and only 18 […]
A study on children suffering from severe inflammatory symptoms shows the condition is new and distinct from Kawasaki disease. In April, researchers in the UK and several European countries with high numbers of COVID-19 cases recognised a new inflammatory syndrome in children that was similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare syndrome known to affect young […]
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MSF Opens Khayelitsha Field Hospital as South Africa Braces for COVID-19. Cape Town – In May, South Africa’s Health Minister warned that with the current infection rate, South Africa would surpass its hospital bed capacity, potentially by the end of June. “As COVID-19 continues to spread, the wards in Khayelitsha District Hospital have filled up […]
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Scientists from the University of Bradford say they are ‘a step closer to finding a vaccine’ for tuberculosis after discovering a new variant of the disease in Africa. The new strain, known as Lineage 8, was found by chance in Rwanda – it has taken researchers two years to sequence and analyse its genome. The […]
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Researchers identify the impact of bacterial co-infections and antimicrobial resistance in COVID-19 A team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have identified new problems linked to the disease and warn of a sharp rise in antimicrobial resistance associated to COVID-19 treatments in the aftermath of the pandemic. In their paper, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, […]
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Imperial College London has formed a new social enterprise VacEquity Global Health (VGH) to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to the world. For the UK and low-income countries abroad, Imperial and VGH will waive royalties and charge only modest cost-plus prices to sustain the enterprise’s work, accelerate global distribution and support new research. The social enterprise’s […]
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Six canine faces look out at the camera. You would be forgiven for assuming they are modelling pet products – but, no, these animals are the first team to be trained by Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) to detect COVID 19. The percentage of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analysing odours is 40 times […]