Hoe succesvolle innovaties de zorg wereldwijd kunnen verbeteren icthealth.nl/nieuws/hoe-suc… Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jeremy Farrar

Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Paxlovid® (nirmatrelvir) clears COVID-19 more rapidly than molnupiravir, report Wellcome-funded Tropical Medicine Oxford supported #PLATCOV researchers In The Lancet Infectious Diseases - it's the 1st ever direct comparison between the 2 leading COVID antivirals!
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Proud to welcome my dear brother Jean Kaseya to the #WHOPandemicHub

Africa CDC is an important partner to World Health Organization (WHO) as we work together to strengthen national capacities for emergency preparedness & response including #CollaborativeSurveillance

👏 Congratulations to the Government of Nepal 🇳🇵 for launching the Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness for Early Detection in Nepal (SPEED) project, marking a transformative step to strengthen Nepal’s health systems with robust tools to face future #pandemics .

#SPEED #Nepal

Protecting humanitarian aid workers: an urgent call thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Dr Maria Neira Novo Nordisk Foundation World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jeremy Farrar Bente Mikkelsen Inspiring to witness World Health Organization (WHO) lead the charge on health in the climate crisis! #ScienceSummit2024 #HealthPolicy

After 10 months off for my science journalism fellowship at MIT I’m jumping back into infectious disease reporting and uh boy I’m not gonna be bored am I?!

Here's a first story on #h5n1 in cows (and I'll try to write a thread later):
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Rates and causes of death after release from incarceration among 1 471 526 people in eight high-income and middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis hubs.li/Q02wjJjW0

The Global Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases 2024 from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been published. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of NTDs & across all six WHO regions.

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#BeatNTDs

A third of a century ago a young man (or old boy) - just 19 - came here to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for a year’s intern between high school and university. He was introduced to the wonder of molecular biology, the thrill of cutting edge research + taught himself to code in C. I never looked back.

Altered X-chromosome inactivation predisposes to autoimmunity | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Hot off the press! World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases 2024!

The report highlights:
📊Quantitative 🧐of #NTDRoadmap2030 indicators
📋Qualitative 🔎of #NTDRoadmap2030 pillars
🌐 #BeatNTDs across all six WHO regions & country progress
#health
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Will AÍ and protein design change field so rapidly and generate new vaccines, therapeutics and biomaterials? The institute of protein design director Dr Lynda Stuart at UW thinks so! And you? #GSS2024

“In the next 2-3 years, Africa CDC will take over and play the role that the UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen is playing by procuring and supplying African countries with essential commodities with a preference for products made in Africa.” africacdc.org/news-item/open…

Since its first performance 200 years ago, Beethoven’s ninth symphony—and in particular its triumphant choral finale, “Ode to Joy”—has been admired by all kinds of audiences: left and right, democrats and totalitarians, capitalists and communists econ.st/3wplhMM 👇

Most medical #AI studies are not in the real world; they are in silico, retrospective, non-randomized and contrived (e.g. scenarios, patient actors).
This one is randomized, in real world medical practice, and showed AI can save lives
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World’s Three Largest Health Philanthropies Join Forces in $300 Million Initiative to Support Innovation in Developing Countries
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We need to strengthen national capacities for health emergencies.

Together w/Alliance for HPSR & Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) kicked off a 3-day consultation w/ 40+ participants from NPHAs & partners in #Singapore to explore NPHA governance models for better emergency preparedness & response