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STAT+: WTO members agree to step up talks about Covid-19 intellectual property proposals
In what is being described as a “major breakthrough,” a World Trade Organization council agreed…
Category: global health
A pandemic upside: The flu virus became less diverse, simplifying the task of making flu shots
In the eight years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the subtypes of…
‘A perilous point’: Global agencies call for $50 billion investment to combat Covid-19
In a plea to halt the Covid-19 pandemic, four global agencies are calling for investments…
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The name game for coronavirus variants just got a little easier
Do you have trouble keeping the names Covid-19 variants straight, and struggle to distinguish B.1.1.7…
Opinion: In ‘vaccine apartheid,’ Nepal is ground zero. It needs U.S. help
The world has reached the era of Covid-19 “vaccine apartheid.” That was the warning this…
STAT+: Wealthy nations and drug makers offer moves to bridge Covid-19 vaccine divide
The leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations and several drug makers took steps to widen…
Opinion: To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences
President Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 is an…
Opinion: Listen: Chelsea Clinton on fracking, oxygen shortages, and other public health crises
Chelsea Clinton joins the “First Opinion Podcast” this week to discuss her work in public…
Opinion: Make drug companies partners — not adversaries — to expand global Covid-19 vaccine access
The Biden administration’s announcement that it would support waiving patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines to…
STAT+: Most Americans believe Biden is correct to support an IP waiver for Covid-19 vaccines
Nearly two in three Americans believe the Biden administration is correct to support a waiver…
Opinion: Listen: A veteran health reporter on the brutality of India’s Covid-19 crisis
In this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” reporter and editor Kalpana Jain details how…
STAT+: In Belgium, too many clinical trial sponsors waffle about reporting required results
The results of more than one-fifth of clinical trials that were conducted in Belgium have…
Opinion: India’s ‘vaccine heist’ and lax regulatory oversight imperil global vaccine access
When Covid-19 began sweeping across the globe in 2020, many experts expected India to be…
Opinion: India’s Covid-19 catastrophe reflects years of neglecting its health system
Covid-19 is surging uncontrollably throughout India, disrupting big cities like Mumbai and devastating rural areas…
STAT+: Brazilian senate votes to suspend patents in bid to widen access to Covid-19 vaccines
After a year of politicking, the Brazilian senate passed a bill that would permit the…
STAT+: Will India issue sidestep patents on a pair of pricey — but lifesaving — TB drugs?
A widely anticipated court hearing will be held in India on Wednesday over the cost…
Opinion: Climate change and human immunity: invest now or pay more later
World leaders, beckoned by President Biden, are assembling on Earth Day, April 22, to create…
Most Americans say they should be vaccinated before the U.S. donates Covid-19 shots elsewhere
Three-quarters of Americans believe the U.S. government should start donating Covid-19 vaccines to other countries,…
STAT+: WTO head urges movement on controversial Covid-19 vaccine proposal, but objections remain
Amid mounting pressure to widen global access to Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the World…
Opinion: STAT+: Rethinking triage in an era of vaccine nationalism
Just about every schoolchild learns that Napoleon Bonaparte was a small man. But few know…
Opinion: Looking back at 15 years of sharing viral genomes to forge ahead
Anniversaries represent an opportunity for revisiting the past to make a leap forward. I’m using…
Opinion: MAPGuide: A tool to help improve health-related public-private partnership agreements
Whenever a new infectious outbreak threatens global health, pharmaceutical companies, governments, international organizations, and philanthropies…
STAT+: Canadian company pursues compulsory license to distribute Covid-19 vaccine to low-income countries
Twice in recent months, a small Canadian company has approached two large drug makers to…
Opinion: Biden should use emergency powers to license Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the WHO for global access
President Biden’s aggressive new timetable for the sprint to full vaccine availability — his target…
Opinion: Covid-19 could bring a new era of public health leadership. But will it?
The bubonic plague — also known as the Black Death — killed as many as…
The short-term, middle-term, and long-term future of the coronavirus
When experts envision the future of the coronavirus, many predict that it will become a…
STAT+: South Africa official explains why world trade rules should be waived to fight Covid-19
Last fall, the governments of India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization to…
Virtual Event: The pandemic’s toll on mental health
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. …
Dozens of institutional investors push for ‘fair and equitable’ Covid-19 response
Nearly 150 institutional investors that oversee combined assets worth more than $14 trillion have issued…
New pledges boost a global vaccine access program, but critics say more is needed
After months of uncertainty and frustration, a World Health Organization program designed to ensure access…
Virtual Event: Facing the crisis of drug-resistant germs
Editor’s note: A livestream of this event will be posted below at 1 p.m. ET. …
‘What other variants might be out there?’ An expert on viral evolution on what’s happening with coronavirus mutations
“Variants” is the latest term to leap from the infectious disease lexicon to the general…
STAT+: Pharma is only ‘inching forward’ in boosting access to medicines in low-income countries
Like the proverbial tortoise, a new analysis finds that while the pharmaceutical industry is taking…
Opinion: Welcome back to the global health stage, America. You have a lot of work to do
The last four years have seen a devastating erosion of American leadership on global health….
STAT+: A Covid-19 vaccine maker in India stirs controversy over its clinical trial
For the second time in two weeks, patient groups in India are raising concerns about…
Opinion: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases
With Covid-19 vaccines beginning to be distributed in the United States and other countries, and…
3 global health issues to watch in 2021
In December 2018, when I set out to write about the global health issues the…
Opinion: Emergency use authorization of Covid-19 vaccines could hinder global access to them
Within the span of 10 days, regulators in the United Kingdom and the United States…
Sanofi suffers major setback in development of a Covid-19 vaccine
One of the world’s leading vaccine manufacturers has suffered a major setback in its work…
STAT+: Medicines Patent Pool expands deal for access to key HIV drug to several countries
In a bid to expand access to a key AIDS drug, ViiV Healthcare and the…
Opinion: Now is the time to innovate for more than 1 billion people with neglected tropical diseases
With the first results of multiple Covid-19 vaccine candidates giving hope to billions of people…
Bill Gates worries about a ‘dysfunctional’ approach to Covid-19 vaccine distribution
Bill Gates fears a “dysfunctional” approach to distributing Covid-19 vaccines, he said Tuesday, despite an…
Inexpensive steroids reduce deaths of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, WHO analysis confirms
Use of inexpensive, readily available steroid drugs to treat people hospitalized with Covid-19 reduced the…
First Covid-19 reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers say
Researchers in Hong Kong on Monday reported what appears to be the first confirmed case…
Seven months later, what we know about Covid-19 — and the pressing questions that remain
The “before times” seem like a decade ago, don’t they? Those carefree days when hugging…
Opinion: The DRC needs an Ebola survivor program to truly quell its outbreak
If the Democratic Republic of the Congo truly wants to break free of Ebola, it…
‘A huge experiment’: How the world made so much progress on a Covid-19 vaccine so fast
Never before have prospective vaccines for a pathogen entered final-stage clinical trials as rapidly as…
The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall ‘catastrophic’ for Covid-19
With the Covid-19 pandemic rampaging across the U.S. in April and 20 million people filing…
WHO launches independent review of the international response to the Covid-19 pandemic
The World Health Organization announced an independent review of the international response to the Covid-19…
STAT Plus: Johnson & Johnson lowers the price of its TB drug in many poor countries, but is it enough?
After protracted criticism over its pricing for a game-changing tuberculosis medicine, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)…