Rebecca Ashfield, University of Oxford and Pedro Folegatti, University of Oxford Of the hundreds of potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, six are in the final stages of testing, known as phase...
The coronavirus pandemic will undoubtedly cause a global recession. That, however, does not mean all countries will be hit equally. Nations that manage to preserve at least some form of sovereignty...
At a time of great health vulnerability, COVID-19 arrived in Venezuela, where hospitals are collapsed, there is a shortage of medicines and serious problems with basic services such as water and...
The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), which began in the Chinese region of Wuhan in December 2019, has killed more than 2,100 people, with all but 11 of those deaths in mainland China. The total...
2019 was the year in which members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) went on strike for the first time in its 103-year history. More than 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland took to the picket...
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The media paints a bleak picture of the world and its future. In fact, studies show that constant exposure to the news can lead to increased rates of anxiety and depression. The cure? Turn it...
In a year where the election is not particularly close, the media has leapt at any chance to make Secretary Clinton’s victory seem less assured and amplify the perception of a horserace. This...
The woeful state of health care in the United States has made the country into something that would be a laughingstock, if the stakes weren’t so high. While most other Western nations have managed...
After the heartbreaking revelations about the treatment of children in Irish industrial schools, documented in the Ryan Report, it is difficult to imagine how any action by the state or the...
