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A promising new antimalarial
A new antimalarial targets disease-causing parasites and lasts a year on mosquito nets
Listening to your body's signals
We explore what interoception is and how we can listen to internal signals in our body
Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
A shingles vaccine unintentionally protects against heart disease for up to 8 years
Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed
What happens when the world’s only research centre for a neglected disease is destroyed?
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
WHO members have agreed to a draft treaty intended to make the world safer from pandemics
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Investigating the mystery of which animals form reservoirs of mpox in the wild.
The Kidney Waiting Game
What it's like to give, receive, and wait for a kidney.
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government
How do funding cuts feel?
What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut?
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is ‘likely unconstitutional’