The new malaria vaccine (RTS.S/ AS01, tentatively brand-named Mosquirix) is the very first one to offer immunity against a parasite -- specifically the plasmodium falciparum parasite, which is the......
Pharma major AstraZeneca said on Monday that an interim analysis of clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom and Brazil showed that it was 70 per cent effective on average,......
The United Kingdom's biggest COVID-19 vaccine project, currently being tested by the University of Oxford, has shown some promising results in a small study with monkeys. Researchers involved with......
We sorted through countless photographs taken around the world to come up with the top images of 2019. Together these tell the story of the year -- capturing moments of hope and heartbreak,......
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the “beneficiaries” -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is......
In areas of Sri Lanka devastated by the tsunami of 2004, hundreds of children attend new schools and thousands are served by a mobile medical clinic courtesy of Hasbro, the Pawtucket, R.I.,......