Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO urges nations to join global shared vaccine bid

The WHO wrote to every country on Tuesday urging them to quickly join its global shared vaccine programme—and spelled out who would get its eventual coronavirus jabs first.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How many people actually have COVID-19?

The demographic scaling model developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and University of Helsinki makes it possible to estimate the actual number of COVID-19-infections in different ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Italy leads Europe reopening borders as virus strikes Latam

Italy reopened its borders to European travellers on Wednesday as the continent slowly emerged from quarantines to restart battered economies even as the coronavirus pandemic carved its deadly path through Latin America.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK mulls 'air bridges' with low-risk countries

Britain confirmed Tuesday it was looking at establishing "air bridges" with countries with low rates of coronavirus, exempting them from controversial quarantine measures.

Oncology & Cancer

Cancer rates in young children are increasing worldwide

Rates of pediatric cancer have been rising since the 1980s; however, this increase varies by age group and cancer type. University of Minnesota researchers studied children under 5 years of age to understand cancer trends ...

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