Where can we invest now to reduce long-term inequality in the COVID-19 recovery? COVID-19 both exposed and exacerbated cruel social divides. Across the world, not only have poor people suffered…
Where can we invest now to reduce long-term inequality in the COVID-19 recovery? COVID-19 both exposed and exacerbated cruel social divides. Across the world, not only have poor people suffered…
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis. The…
QR codes – bar codes that can be read by mobile phones – have been used in China during the pandemic in the battle against the virus in the mainland….
After acquiring online pharmacy Pillpack in 2018, Amazon has officially entered the digital pharmacy market in 2020. Offering Prime members significant discounts and purportedly offering generic prescribed brand-name drugs, the…
FDA approved Apple Watch App that is aimed to stop nightmares. So what? In future, we will see more and more technologies and wearables applied not only to track health…
Medical journal The Lancet has published a proposal for an interprofessional planetary health pledge that is based on the Declaration of Geneva, to unite health professionals in the Anthropocene. The…
A sharp rise in children’s mental health problems has been seen in the UK since the start of the pandemic, particularly sleep problems, eating disorders, panic attacks and self-harm. However…
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven many people to learn a new emotional experience in response to crowds or the physical proximity of others. Anxiety, fear, anger can contribute to a…
The links between deforestation and the emergence of novel pandemics are being highlighted by researchers who say that the increasing disruption of wild forest ecosystems transfers viruses from their natural…
The World Health Organization warned on 2 February that the 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive ‘infodemic’, defined as “an over-abundance of information – some accurate…
New Zealand has launched ‘Sperm Positive’, the world’s first HIV positive sperm bank, in an endeavour to reduce stigma associated with the virus and educate people about HIV transmission. The partners…
A new method for gene editing, called prime editing, offers greater control over modifications and could be safer for use in humans than the widely popular CRISPR-Cas9 system. CRISPR systems…