Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having bloomed to thousands of infections, with cases...
Health Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will...
We all have our favourite summer cold drinks, from fruity British favourites like a cup of thirst-quenching Pimms or a...
Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and leading pan-Africanist, would have been 97 on 20 July 2022. He left...
We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials....
The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” –...
Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity. Given...
Six of the countries of the East African Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania – recently...
We all watched as the horrors unfolded in long-term care (LTC) in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian LTC residents...
Approximately 4.5 million South Africans have type 2 diabetes – a condition characterised by high levels of sugar in the...
