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What went right this week: a big week for medical breakthroughs, plus more

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:00:29 +0000

New tests promised to ‘turn tide’ on cancer, a breakthrough saved a man’s sight, and the Dutch unplugged en mass, plus more

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Biting back: new hope in the fight against malaria

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:30:56 +0000

Despite significant headway since 2010, progress in tackling malaria has stalled in recent years. A new vaccine could spell a breakthrough for people across Africa

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Good figures: progress and possibility in numbers

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:49:32 +0000

From a drop in child obesity to the launch of the world’s first malaria vaccine, we’ve done the numbers on inspiring news stories from around the world

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Child on Vanuatu given world’s first drone-delivered vaccine

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:22:18 +0000

One in five children in the remote Pacific island nation are not fully immunised. Unicef has helped to bring about the first-ever commercial contract to deliver vaccines by drone

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