This Month in History. August: National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM). Bacterial contamination is discovered in batch of flu vaccines; 5 yr old boy in Peru believed to be last case of indigenous polio in Western Hemisphere; NIAM...

Anthony Fauci talks to the WSJ about the future timetable for vaccines and other treatments that business can plan for.

This is a global health video blog giving you 10 facts about immunisation and the importance of vaccination. Global health (and public health) is truly multidisciplinary and leans on epidemiology, health economics, health policy,...

Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...

We just learned about immunosuppressants, so now it's time to learn about immunostimulants. As one would expect, rather than dampening immune activity, these enhance immune activity. There are instances in which immune stimulation has...

The co-founder of the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation tells FT editor Roula Khalaf, in an interview recorded on April 29, that women have lost $800bn of income in the pandemic and on average have contributed 30 hours a week to unpaid...

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William Easterly (Professor of Economics @New York University and Co-director @NYU DRI) discusses the critical successes and failures of nations in the evolving globa
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In which John, inspired by Eula Biss's book On Immunity, considers how immunity and inoculation happen. Other topics discussed include vaccination, the relationship between individual efforts and collaboration, and what must be shared to...

Communication Professor reacts to Bill Gates's interview answers about Jeffrey Epstein on PBS with Judy Woodruff. His body language and nonverbal cues augment his awkward verbal responses.

Almost all vaccines on the market require refrigeration to remain viable, including during transport. Continuous cooling is expensive and especially challenging in developing countries. To solve this problem, Vaxess Technologies Inc., a...

The FT explains the business models behind vaccines and asks if the Covid-19 pandemic will fundamentally change the vaccine market. This short documentary features global experts including Bill Gates, the CEOs of Moderna and Gavi, and...

Part three of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, dives into the immune system. We explore some of the ins and outs of this system, how it responds to viruses,...

Part two of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, explores the history of vaccine development following the world’s first vaccination.

R0 (the basic reproductive number) tells us more than just how many people will be infected in a totally susceptible population. It can be used to calculate the how much vaccine coverage is needed to get to herd immunity. As COVID-19...

Anna Gross lays out the threat new variants of the disease pose to the UK's vaccination programme. The hopes of the rest of the world could rest upon whether Britain succeeds in its target of 15m vaccinations by mid-February.

The video is an informative piece about viruses and their impact on living things, specifically humans. It explains what a virus is, how it reproduces and infects cells, and the sheer number of viruses that can exist in a single drop of...

In the last few years the rates of vaccine preventable illness have been on the rise. This isn't just something that's happening in the United States - it's happening throughout the world. Often, these outbreaks begin with unvaccinated...

Fall in North America, the start of flu season, is when many people receive their yearly flu vaccine. The flu shot differs from other vaccines, such as measles or mumps, which are generally given only once during a person’s lifetime. The...

Gene technology includes a range of activities that take advantage of genetic variation, modifying genes and transferring genes to new hosts. It includes genetic engineering and genetic testing. Gene technology is the term given to...

Learn about the bizarre and often dangerous medical treatments used in America up until the 20th century.

There are so many critters out there, bacteria and viruses that want to wreak havoc in our bodies. How do we defend ourselves against such tiny threats? The immune system! This is quite possibly the most profoundly remarkable aspect of...

Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...

Malaria still kills around 400,000 people a year. Efforts to eradicate the disease have stalled because of drug resistance—but pioneering gene-editing technology might offer a new solution

In this episode we'll be continuing our look at health systems, talking about how countries plan their procurement and supply chain management of products for healthcare, governance and leadership.