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Malaria death rates drop by 60%
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint World Health...
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UKCDS welcomes new Director Fiona Reid
Fiona Reid, new director of UKCDS Today, Fiona Reid joins the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) as its new Director. Fiona is an expert in innovation and...
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Next step towards polio-free Africa
The African continent has been declared one year free of the wild poliovirus, with no new cases identified since 11 August 2014. This significant event has been greeted with...
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Ebola and genetic modification
GM mosquitoes could be used to help fight the spread of malaria (Image: Ramón Portellano) A number of UK Parliamentary Select Committees have recently announced new...
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The environment could change the way we eat
How might the changing climate affect our food and health? (Image: Nicola Jones) A new Wellcome Trust funded study should soon be able to tell us how the food we eat...
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Report recognises UK as a global leader in health
(Image: Lindsay Mgbor, DFID) A new report, published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health at the end of June, highlighted the value of the UK’s role...
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ESRC prize rewards societal and economic impact
The winning impact, a film of life in the Indian Himalayas (Image: Oxford University) The Economic and Social Research Council recently held the award ceremony for...
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International partnerships make leaps for vaccines
Pooling knowledge from around the world might help win the fight against tuberculosis (Image: ZEISS Microscopy) “Open to the world!” shouts the brochure,...
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New funding for UK food systems
Increasing resilience of agricultural landscapes and the UK food system (Image: Jon Bunting) Global Food Security (GFS) Programme has recently agreed a new five-year...