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Healthcare
Surgeons must tackle three global health challenges to save lives

Tony Moran 6 Jun 2023

SAISC event addresses challenges key to sectors of the steel industry
Construction & Engineering
SAISC event addresses challenges key to sectors of the steel industry

11 May 2023

Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide - new study
Energy & Mining
Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide - new study

Klaus Hubacek, Jin Yan, Yuli Shan and Yuru Guan 17 Feb 2023

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Healthcare
Experts pave the way for safer surgery to address global elective waiting lists

1 Nov 2022

Environmental impact assessments don't work in Nigeria: here's why
ESG & Sustainability
Environmental impact assessments don't work in Nigeria: here's why

Synda Obaji 7 Sep 2022

Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change
Agriculture
Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change

Tom Pugh 3 Nov 2021

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Healthcare
Study: Lower antibody activity against delta variant at single dose - but vaccines still work

Zania Stamataki 28 Jul 2021

Tackling the last mile of the Covid-19 vaccine journey
Healthcare
Tackling the last mile of the Covid-19 vaccine journey

26 Nov 2020

Patients waiting at Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone (credit - Steven Rubin)
Healthcare
Inadequate healthcare measurement puts patients at risk in Global South

18 Nov 2020

Covid-19 free hospital areas could save lives after surgery
Healthcare
Covid-19 free hospital areas could save lives after surgery

7 Oct 2020

Study: Dried blood spot sampling provides greater access to antibody testing
Healthcare
Study: Dried blood spot sampling provides greater access to antibody testing

5 Oct 2020

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology
ESG & Sustainability
Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Nic Cheeseman and Lisa Garbe 2 Oct 2020

Cardiovascular risk factors are high in Sierra Leone. Steven Rubin
Healthcare
Why Sierra Leone needs to focus on cardiovascular health

Maria Odland & Justine Ina Davies 10 Sep 2020

Are young trees or old forests more important for slowing climate change?
Agriculture
Are young trees or old forests more important for slowing climate change?

Tom Pugh 31 Jul 2020

Queue of seated outpatients, waiting patiently inside a provincial hospital corridor in Port Elizabeth. Shutterstock
Healthcare
Why people don't get emergency medical care in time: a study in South Africa

Justine Ina Davies 13 Jul 2020

Antibody tests may help detect Covid-19 infection - if used at right time
Healthcare
Antibody tests may help detect Covid-19 infection - if used at right time

26 Jun 2020

Women and children wait to be treated at a health clinic in northern Burkina Faso. Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images
Healthcare
A new global health pattern: longer life for the poor, with more ailments

Justine Ina Davies & Maria Odland 25 May 2020

Professor Justine Davies
Healthcare
Covid-19 and the need for whole health systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Justine Davies 30 Apr 2020

Monetary trouble ahead. Shutterstock
Finance
Why the Bank of England will struggle to stop the economic fallout of a hard Brexit - and could even make it worse

Huw Macartney 27 Sep 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.
Marketing & Media
WhatsApp played a big role in the Nigerian election. Not all of it was bad

Nic Cheeseman 29 Jul 2019

Some softer solutions to Nairobi's traffic pollution problem
ESG & Sustainability
Some softer solutions to Nairobi's traffic pollution problem

Fiona Rajé 10 Jun 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo
Healthcare
Breastfeeding could provide life-long immunity to infection, study

4 Jun 2019

Experts fear that Uganda’s efforts to eliminate graft in its health care system are not sustainable. Suuba Trust/Flickr
Healthcare
What we found out about bribery patterns in Uganda's healthcare system

Heather Marquette & Caryn Peiffer 1 Mar 2019

Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined
Healthcare
Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

7 Feb 2019

Salty and fatty foods are driving up obesity. Shutterstock
Healthcare
Weighing up the costs of treating lifestyle diseases in South Africa

7 Feb 2019

Lifting the lid on the black box of informal trade in Africa
Retail
Lifting the lid on the black box of informal trade in Africa

Joachim Jarreau, Cristina Mitaritonna and Sami Ben 26 Sep 2018

New drug halves hearing loss in children following cancer treatment
Healthcare
New drug halves hearing loss in children following cancer treatment

28 Jun 2018

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Agriculture
A close up look at the social networks of Lake Victoria's fisherfolk

Fiona Nunan 28 Nov 2017

The economic black hole at the heart of the shift to electric vehicles
Automotive
The economic black hole at the heart of the shift to electric vehicles

John Bryson and Tasos Kitsos 10 Aug 2017

Video game helps elderly keep their minds sharp
ICT
Video game helps elderly keep their minds sharp

6 Sep 2013

Facebook boosts connections, not happiness
ICT
Facebook boosts connections, not happiness

16 Aug 2013

Healthcare
Adding chemo to radiotherapy halves risk of deadly bladder cancer returning

20 Apr 2012

Healthcare
Cancer Research UK launches 'outpatients' trial of breast and ovarian cancer drug

20 Jan 2012

Healthcare
First trial of a new hepatitis C vaccine shows promise

10 Jan 2012

New drugs from bugs
Healthcare
New drugs from bugs

4 May 2011

New drugs from bugs
Healthcare
New drugs from bugs

8 Apr 2011

Healthcare
Males with faulty BRCA2 genes at risk of breast cancer

12 Jul 2010

Healthcare
Quitting smoking doubles survival chances in lung cancer patients

22 Jan 2010

Healthcare
LUNA surgical procedure did not alleviate chronic pelvic pain in women

3 Sep 2009

US doccie team partners with Mozambicans
Marketing & Media
US doccie team partners with Mozambicans

29 May 2009

Healthcare
New target for the potential treatment of tuberculosis

4 Jul 2008

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