Drugmakers should test any Covid-19 vaccines that have been retooled to combat new variants of the coronavirus in clinical trials designed to track the immune response...
Credit: West Virginia University Long before COVID-19 entered the picture, West Virginia had been battling two other major public health crises: opioids and HIV. Dr. Sally...
Drug developer Novavax Inc. completed enrolling 30,000 volunteers in a late-stage study of the company's Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico.
The United States on Feb. 22 closed in on the staggering milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths according to a Reuters tally of public health data, just...
COVID-19 has made it extremely difficult to mobilize the resources needed for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the time left to their...
Just As COVID Vaccine Found To Be 99% Effective In Preventing Death, Japan Discovers New, More Contagious Strain With each passing day, covid gets closer to...
Johnson & Johnson submitted data to the World Health Organization (WHO) for emergency use listing of the company's Covid-19 vaccine, which would allow for wider access...
Latest Viral Threat: Bubonic Plague Emerges In Congo While the world continues to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, several other (far more deadly) viruses have made...
Rising yields spook investors Jerome Powell’s appearances in Congress next week may come at the perfect time. Rising yields have made investors nervous and the Fed...
Novavax announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to provide 1.1 billion doses of the company's Covid-19 vaccine candidate NVX-CoV2373 for the COVAX...
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing a new outbreak of Ebola. A global emergency stockpile of The post West Africa prepares for Ebola vaccination...
Although COVID-19 infection rates in Africa have been significantly lower than initially predicted, many development experts postulate that the pandemic’s economic upheaval threatens to erase up...
Novavax has signed a deal to provide 1.1 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX global initiative.
At the end of World War I, J. A. Schumpeter coined the term “thunder of history” to describe the historical roots of fiscal systems. Indeed, wars,...
The pandemic has brought humanity’s strained relationship with nature into sharp focus.
'Show trials' by dictatorships have repeatedly been shown to have no basis in law.
A transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode #3.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s services-led economic growth has been under increasing strain due to COVID-19. Beyond the threats to health and livelihoods the pandemic has thrown a wrench...
Doctors Endorse Delay Of 2nd Pfizer Jab Even As New Research Shows Low Efficacy Against South African 'Mutant' Following a flurry of data suggesting the first...
Plus new research on why China is closing down coal-fired power stations. Listen to episode 3 of The Conversation Weekly.
Industrialisation was key to long-term economic growth in the west and Asia. After years of going in the wrong direction, new research suggests that many African...
Blain: Why "Acting Big" Still Won't Cure Much In The Real Economy Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”...
A focus on 'catching up' implies a deficit on the part of pupils.
Industrialisation was key to long-term economic growth in the west and Asia. After years of going in the wrong direction, new research suggests that many African...
Who Is The US President? Kamala Harris, Not Biden Is Talking With Foreign Leaders Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, While Joe Biden plays Mario...
Will The New Ebola Epidemic In Africa Soon Become The Next Global Pandemic? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.,com, Ebola is back, and people are starting...
WHO Issues 'Alert' To Six African Nations After Recent Ebola Outbreaks After the West African country of Guinea reported its first confirmed Ebola deaths since 2016,...
The World Health Organization asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea on Feb. 16 reported new cases and Democratic Republic...
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world economic order as we know it and may be the gravest challenge that Africa’s leaders have faced since independence....