Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week - from reinfection to the risks of obesity
Obesity linked to significantly higher COVID-19 risks
Sam Leakey
Sam is Programme Specialist, Science and Society at the World Economic Forum.
Últimos Artículos
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from bats to mutations
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 traced
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week - from airborne transmission to why we should all wear masks
Further evidence in favour of face coverings
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from a life-saving drug to one billion at risk
First life-saving drug identified and it's cheap and widely available
Health and Healthcare Systems
A leading COVID-19 modeller answers our questions
A senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, Dr Sheetal Silal has spent her career developing and using mathematical models to understand the spread of infectious diseases and how pu...
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from testosterone to the latest on hydroxychloroquine
Since one of the first studies emerged in January from Wuhan, China, researchers have known that COVID-19 seems to affect men more than women. More recent studies from Italy and New York ...
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from hydroxychloroquine doubts to children’s resilience
Friday 5 June update: This study was retracted from the Lancet on Thursday 4 June. For the latest see here.
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from old antibodies to new vaccines
It is still not clear whether people infected with coronavirus are immune to the virus after they recover. It’s a key scientific question that needs to be addressed, especially as many he...
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Top science stories of the week, from genetics to herd immunity
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance on controversial challenge trials in which healthy volunteers would be deliberately infected with COVID-19.
Health and Healthcare Systems
An expert in infectious animal diseases answers questions on this pandemic – and the next one
While many of us may only have become aware of the links between viruses, wildlife and habitat destruction recently, Dr. Suzan Murray has spent much of her career studying the intersectio...
Health and Healthcare Systems
Un prestigioso científico experto en vacunas de la COVID-19 responde a nuestras preguntas
El trabajo para acelerar el desarrollo de una vacuna para el coronavirus recibió un impulso la semana pasada cuando el gobierno del Reino Unido anunció una medida de financiación de 42,5 ...
Health and Healthcare Systems
A leading COVID-19 vaccine scientist answers our questions
Work to fast-track the development of a coronavirus vaccine received a boost last week as the UK government announced £42.5 million in funding for the country’s two leading efforts at Oxf...
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: Dry-swabs and spit could help scale testing, and other top science stories of the week
On Wednesday, it was announced that in the largest and most rigorous clinical trial yet, patients taking the experimental drug remdesivir recovered from COVID-19 more quickly than those o...
Health and Healthcare Systems
COVID-19: a new human vaccine trial begins, and other top science stories of the week
Intensive testing in the small Italian town of Vo’ has offered further evidence that a large proportion of people with COVID-19 have no symptoms. Researchers from the University of Padua ...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Nobel 2017: Physics prize goes to pioneers of gravitational waves
The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational wave...