Category: 6. Health

Reaching every zero-dose child requires more than commitment; it requires targeted data and practical tools to drive resources where they matter most.

The Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH), established by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in 2022,…

Soaring demand has caused a major shortage of flu jab appointments across England, the Guardian can reveal.

NHS leaders have issued urgent pleas to the public for them to get their flu jabs and help the health service cope with a crippling…

No one wants to be sick for the holidays! Gathering with friends and family during the holidays can spread more than just good cheer; some guests could unknowingly pass along a viral illness like COVID (and flu, RSV and measles). 

Fortunately,…

“This tells us something really important,” de Havenon explains. “Even if you’ve been dealt a bad genetic hand with APOE ε4, you’re not destined for dementia. The vascular component is modifiable.”

For instance, the health factors that can…

After 15 years as a urologist and men’s sexual health specialist, I’ve seen firsthand how testosterone impacts men’s lives physically, mentally and emotionally. It shapes how we show up as partners, as fathers, and as people trying to…

In the southwestern United States in the early weeks of 2024, a large-animal veterinarian pulled up to a dairy farm on his usual rounds and…

Every summer, Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spends about a month in Managua, Nicaragua, when the rainy season is in full swing. But Gordon is interested in a different kind of season. “June or…

The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United…

In February 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) tried to predict which strains of influenza were going to pose the biggest threat in that year’s Northern Hemisphere flu season. It failed.

On the basis of surveillance data on which strains…

Of all the pathogens that have plagued humanity, few are as notorious and persistent as influenza. Its Houdini-like ability to…