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Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
A shingles vaccine unintentionally protects against heart disease for up to 8 years

Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed
What happens when the world’s only research centre for a neglected disease is destroyed?

WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
WHO members have agreed to a draft treaty intended to make the world safer from pandemics

Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Investigating the mystery of which animals form reservoirs of mpox in the wild.

The Kidney Waiting Game
What it's like to give, receive, and wait for a kidney.

Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government

How do funding cuts feel?
What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut?

Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is ‘likely unconstitutional’

Measles spreads in the Americas
The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status

Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
How will large cuts to US aid affect global health?