Something to Chew on

Patients with asymmetrical jaws, where the left and right sides are of unequal lengths due to differing growth rates or trauma, have a lot to deal with. They have functional problems with eating and speaking and low self-esteem due to the impact on their appearance....

Fighting Back against COVID-19

VACCINE BREAKTHROUGHSCurrent vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have done well protecting people from severe illness and death, but some studies have shown that even vaccinated people may continue to carry quite high levels of the virus in their nose, a situation that may...

Early Detection to Beat Liver Disease

Drug addicts in rehab were the biggest target for the programme, one of the highest risk groups for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) which is usually transmitted through contact with blood, bodily fluids or sexual intercourse and from mothers to babies during pregnancy....

Chain Reactions

The H5N1 bird flu first jumped to humans in 1997 in Hong Kong, killing six of the 18 patients infected. But that was not the end of H5N1. In 2003 it resurfaced in humans and over the next few years was detected in wild birds in many regions around the world. For...

Disunity of Purpose

In 2007, the Indonesian government announced it would stop sending samples of the H5N1 avian influenza virus detected in its country to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) reference laboratories. Its worry was that these samples, provided freely, would be used by...