Sri Lanka Gets First Batch of World Bank-financed COVID-19 Vaccines
A consignment of Pfizer vaccines on July 5, 2021 arrived in Colombo, the first batch of 800,000 doses to be delivered in the next few weeks. A total of five million vaccines financed through the World Bank's Sri Lanka COVID-19 Emergency Response and...
WHO supporting South African consortium to establish first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium comprising Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to...
Prototype device may diagnose common pregnancy complications by monitoring placental oxygen
The prototype oxygen sensor next to a diagram of a fetus with forward-facing placenta...
NIH-funded study shows children recycle brain regions when acquiring new skills
Sample images used for testing brain responses in children. To understand how the brain reacts to...
Soaring e-waste affects the health of millions of children, WHO warns
Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices according to a new...
WHO steps up action to improve food safety and protect people from disease
Every year 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses are reported. In 2010, 420 000 people died due to such diseases as salmonella and E.coli infection, a third of them children under five years of age. It is estimated that this figure is increasing...
Global Launch: Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report
According to the new Energy Progress Report, close to 3 billion people have no access to clean cooking solutions, mainly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Without urgent attention to this issue, only 72% of the global population will have access to...
WHO supports people quitting tobacco to reduce their risk of severe COVID-19
he World Health Organization’s 'Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely available to more than a billion tobacco users, less than 5 months into the year-long campaign.
Largest CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Study in Health Workers Shows mRNA Vaccines 94% Effective
A new CDC study adds to the growing body of real-world evidence (outside of a clinical trial setting) showing that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protect health care personnel (HCP) against COVID-19. mRNA...
NIH-funded study finds higher dose of DHA associated with lower early preterm birth rate
Women taking 1,000 mg of docosohexanoic acid (DHA) daily in the last half of pregnancy had a lower rate of early preterm birth than women who took the standard 200 mg dose, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Women who...
