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What went right this week: how AI might save your life, plus more

Gavin Haines — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:00:09 +0000

Trees offered a ‘climate surprise’, AI boosted cancer detection rates, and a bird fluttered back from the brink, plus more

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What went right this week: a historic malaria vaccine rollout, plus more

Gavin Haines — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 05:00:02 +0000

Cameroon made ‘public health history’, there were ‘promising trends’ in energy, good news for desk-bound workers, and more

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Guerrilla rewilding and buildings that heal. Plus what else to expect in the new issue of Positive News

Daisy Greenwell — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:09:44 +0000

The new issue of Positive News magazine is out now. Highlights include a fresh, Finnish approach to treating psychosis

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‘Exciting advances’ in the fight against HIV

Lucy Douglas — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:06:48 +0000

Second person to be declared free of the virus that causes Aids goes public, as preventative treatment becomes fully available in England

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The doctor fighting poverty by prescribing money

Suzanne Bearne — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:02:48 +0000

Where some doctors see only heart disease or depression, Canadian GP Gary Bloch also sees poverty and homelessness. He realised that his patients’ health was unlikely to improve until one particular issue that plagued them was addressed – money

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Aids breakthrough: landmark study finds drugs prevent transmission of virus

Lucy Purdy — Fri, 03 May 2019 12:54:43 +0000

Study found a ‘zero risk’ of infection from HIV-positive men on antiretroviral drugs

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

Lucy Purdy — 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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