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Could bats hold the secrets to preventing cancer? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, Nigeria / By Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, shows that rapid evolution in bats may account for the animals’ extraordinary ability to both host and survive infections as well as avoid cancer.  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001498# Bats are exceptional among mammals …

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Prototype point-of-care test for detecting HPV offers hope for cervical cancer detection; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, News, Newsletter, Non Communicable Diseases / By Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi DNA-based screening methods for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) have proven to be highly effective for early cervical cancer detection but remain too expensive and difficult to use in resource-limited settings. Kundrod et al. have developed a prototype point-of-care test for detecting …

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Bio Farma to produce Merck & Co’s HPV vaccine

Leave a Comment / Featured, News, Newsletter / By chris

In a bid to combat HPV-linked cervical cancer in the country Indonesia will produce drugmaker Merck & Co’s vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV), the chief of its state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said last Tuesday,. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/985471?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=4990446&faf=1 Cervical cancer is the fourth-most common cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths …

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WTO waters down IP restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, sars-cov-2 / By chris

The World Trade Organization (WTO) approved a politically important deal Friday to water down intellectual property restrictions for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines after an almost two-year effort involving scores of high-level meetings and much political arm twisting. During the early morning hours in Geneva, WTO ministers approved a package of agreements that included the …

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India stalls global COVID-19 death toll estimates; the latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, sars-cov-2 / By chris

India is stalling an ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Like some other such efforts (less authoritative perhaps) before it, the WHO study has found that vastly more people died than previously believed — a total of about 15 million by the end of …

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International HPV Awareness Day 2022 – an interview with Benda Kithaka, KILELE Health, Kenya

Leave a Comment / Featured, infectious diseases, Interview, News / By chris

The international HPV awareness day is observed each year to sensitise the global audience on the value of prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of human papillomavirus. These efforts aim to increase awareness and reduce stigma around the disease, thereby eliminating it and lowering the cervical cancer burden. In Africa, HPV is a highly prevalent virus …

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WTO waters down IP restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines; The latest health stories from around the world

India stalls global COVID-19 death toll estimates; the latest health stories from around the world

International HPV Awareness Day 2022 – an interview with Benda Kithaka, KILELE Health, Kenya

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