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“The world’s a very complicated place now. It’s tense. The world has lived through a pandemic where India played a critical role in science and technology, the development of vaccines, the manufacturing of drugs, diagnostics, and therapeutics. It played a key role globally,” World Health Organisation chief scientist Jeremy Farrar…

Paediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemic

The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn’t chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete

Pet owners are being urged to keep cats indoors and dogs on a leash after two poultry workers became the fourth and fifth Brits to become infected with bird flu this week — so how worried should we be about the virus? Katie Strick reports

Leak has provided unique insight into how UK government operated at height of the Covid pandemic

Former health secretary conspired with Dominic Cummings to remove Simon Stevens in early 2020

The former health secretary reportedly discussed Simon Stevens, now Lord Stevens, with Boris Johnson’s then chief adviser Dominic Cummings

Leaked messages revealed a desire to oust Simon Stevens.

Governments should invest in vaccines for all strains of influenza virus that exist in the animal kingdom as an insurance policy in case of an outbreak in humans, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Professor Jeremy Farrar, who became a well known face during the Covid pandemic, warned that exhausted and demoralised NHS staff would not be ready when another a crisis hits unless low morale and capacity issues solved

Incoming WHO chief scientist says that without action, workers ‘won’t be there when you need them’