James Logan and Nina Stanczyk are interviewed on BBC News online, BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 You and Yours, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland, ABC Australia and Voice of Russia about new research showing mosquitoes exposed to DEET once are less repelled by it a few hours…
Val Curtis speaks to BBC Radio London, BBC News channel and BBC London TV about health issues associated with spitting in the street, linked to the introduction of fines being by a London Council: “Once upon a time it would have been a danger… when tuberculosis was rife… but it…
Paul Fine co-authors a comment in the Lancet about trial results that show the failure of a new TB vaccine to protect infants against the disease: “Although the trial raised no concerns about safety, the absence of any detectable efficacy presents the tuberculosis vaccine community with a serious challenge…
Laura Rodrigues in the Guardian on why the School has one of the highest rates of women in professorial roles in the UK: “I believe there’s a snowball effect… The more the junior female staff and students see female scientists directing courses, leading seminars, being in positions of responsibility…
BBC News ask John Cairns for comments on a new European Commission-funded study testing the quality-adjusted life years (QALY) method used by NICE to assess the value of new drug treatments in England and Wales: “QALYs are certainly not perfect and we should be looking for better ways…
Heidi Larson writes in New Scientist about how a global treaty on mercury pollution will do more harm than good if it bans a vital medical preservative: “A number of developing countries have expressed concern over thiomersal’s proposed ban. Public health experts around the world, including the WHO, have…
Heidi Larson speaks to the Lancet about the problems behind the measles outbreak in Pakistan: “What we’ve seen with the surge in measles in Pakistan in the last year is really a reflection of a system breakdown. There was a devolution of the Ministry of Health to the provincial…
Matt Yeo and Mark Rowland on BBC Nature’s Weirdest Events discussing kissing bugs, chagas disease and how to get botfly out of your body. (At 46m and 56m)
Nick Black speaks to the Press Association about the controversial Health and Social Care Act coming into force: “On April 1st…
Brian Greenwood on Voice of America discussing issues raised by the World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2012: “We do have quite clear evidence that there is resistance to the artemisinins, particularly in Cambodia…It would be a disaster if those parasites got loose in Africa and our main…
John Edmunds and Alma Adler speak to Sky News about preliminary findings from the UK Flusurvey: “The data are very preliminary and flu levels are still very low but overall the results suggest that contrary to what we expected to find, there is no such thing as man flu.”Also…
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