Year: 2020

Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

Explained: What Early Reports From Mumbai’s Second Seroprevalence Survey Tell Us

Murad Banaji 06/10/2020

Murad Banaji explains how these results do and don't...

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2020 Medicine Nobel Winner Declined 2013 Prize That Overlooked His Teammates

The Wire Staff 05/10/2020

Michael Houghton was awarded a prestigious research prize in...

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What It Means To Be a Common-Sensical Citizen

Vineeta Tanwar 05/10/2020

As one of the first steps, promote critical and...

Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Scientists Who Helped Identify Hepatitis C Virus Win 2020 Nobel Medicine Prize

Reuters 05/10/2020

The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and...

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India Hopes to Receive 50 Crore COVID-19 Vaccine Doses by July 2021: Harsh Vardhan

The health minister said the Centre hopes to inoculate...

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How Globalisation Intersects With the Local Lens of Public Health

Dr Yash Milind Prasade, Dr Parul Malik and Dr Arathi P Rao 05/10/2020

While globalisation could precipitate or accentuate local health effects,...

The Nobel Prize medal. Credit: robynmack96/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How the Nobel Prize Maintains Science’s Inequalities – and How It Can Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2020

It is nonsensical to persist with the idea of...