Year: 2022

Health

Biomarker found to help predict severity of Covid-19

An international team of scientists has identified a new biomarker that could predict the severity of coronavirus disease from nasopharyngeal swab. Biology Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart...

5 February 2022 · 4 min read

America

What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the district’s eighth grade curriculum on the Holocaust. In the book, American cartoonist...

5 February 2022 · 10 min read

Human Rights

Daughters of Somalia, a continuous pledge to end female

In Somalia, over 90 per cent or more of girls and women, have been subjected to female genital mutilation, or FGM. Despite the practice having devastating health ramifications for women…

4 February 2022 · 6 min read

America

New WHO platform promotes global cancer prevention 

With one in five people worldwide developing cancer during their lifetimes, prevention of the disease has become one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century.

4 February 2022 · 3 min read