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Sir Colin Blakemore obituary

Neuroscientist, persuasive science communicator and advocate for rationality and openness

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2022

Steps to check speeding can save 20,000 lives annually: Lancet

Of the total 1,31,714 deaths due to road accidents, speeding accounted for 91,239 or 69.3%, says Ministry report

The Hindu · Jun 29, 2022

Fans, sprinklers and cold baths for cows: India’s dairy farmers face searing heat

Milk and cheese output from world’s largest producer faces catastrophic decline unless more heat stress resistant cattle are bred

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2022

Explained | What the new Lancet report says about India’s pollution problem

Pollution resulted in more than 23 lakh premature deaths in India in 2019, highest in the world, a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has revealed. 

The Hindu · May 22, 2022

Respiratory syncytial virus kills 100,000 under-fives every year

The acute lower respiratory infection has surged after Covid restrictions eased, experts say

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2022

Pollution is responsible for one in six deaths each year — and it’s getting worse

A landmark report reveals that one in six deaths are due to pollution, particularly in lower and middle-income countries.

Inverse · May 18, 2022

Fighting the horror of wartime rape, Nobel Peace Prize winner won't give up hope

Dr. Denis Mukwege has spent decades treating women who have been raped in his homeland of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's calling on the world to take action for women in Ukraine.

WEKU · May 18, 2022

Peru's Covid orphans struggle to get by

As Peru slowly emerges from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, the government is trying to help the country's Covid orphans. According to the medical journal The Lancet, around 100,000 children in Peru lost at least one of their two parents to the pandemic; more than anywhere else in the world. The…

France 24 · May 13, 2022

A CDC Study Suggests Three-Fifths of Americans Have Been Infected by the Coronavirus

The estimate implies an overall infection fatality rate of about 0.5 percent, although that number should be viewed with caution.

Reason · Apr 27, 2022

Sweden trial starts in stem-cell windpipe transplants case

A surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden’s leading hospital is on trial accused of aggravated assault against three of his patients

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022