For 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, Ramadan 2020 brought unique challenges, as it coincided with the global covid-19 pandemic and implementation of social distancing measures. The Ramadan month of fasting requires […]
Year: 2020
David Nabarro and John Atkinson: Dealing with covid-19 means looking beyond immediate crisis response
We anticipate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting disease covid-19 will remain an ever-present threat to the world for the foreseeable future. It makes sense that until now many […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—3 July 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Covid-19 highlights the gender imbalance in leadership and the imperative to address it
Even if the spread of covid-19 and the tragic loss of life are brought to an end, the pandemic will sadly continue to have disastrous long-term consequences. The crisis has […]
Taking a covid-19 test at home: the fragile base on which track-and-trace is built
Like millions of others every day I have “done my bit” by entering into an app my symptoms and whether I’ve had a test for covid-19, and day after day […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Ivermectin
The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2015 was awarded for two pharmacological discoveries: Tu Youyou’s discovery of the efficacy in malaria of qinghao, Artemisia annua, the source of […]
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra: The need to unpack vulnerability in a pandemic
As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political discourses. For example, it became clear early on, that older […]
Offline and left behind: how digital exclusion has impacted health during the covid-19 pandemic
Healthcare’s sudden transformation into an online service has come at a cost for many, write Anna Ray, Amy Stevens, and Ahimza Thirunavukarasu […]
US purchases world stocks of Remdesivir—why the rest of the world should be glad to be at the back of the queue
The remdesivir story may actually be good news for the rest of the world, argues James M Brophy […]
Nisreen Alwan: Let’s equalise our antiracist language
Antiracist language is one way to explicitly consider ethnicity and racism within our institutions, both during the pandemic and beyond […]