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Cleanrooms are an indispensable part of biopharmaceutical, medical device and other health product manufacturing. Their specialised design helps biopharma manufacturers and healthcare providers maintain controlled conditions within factories, laboratories and healthcare facilities.   Cleanrooms are not just rooms. They are an all-encompassing approach used to maintain certain environmental standards in settings where it matters the…

  The peak of the Covid-19 pandemic may have passed, but its lingering effects continue to shape global health strategies.   During the pandemic, both developed and developing countries faced significant challenges in securing essential health products, underscoring the need for self-sufficient health sectors. This crisis revealed the importance of nearshoring or localising supply chains,…

A fever, sore throat, muscle aches, and rashes or mucosal lesions on the skin. Recovery is usually spontaneous, unless an infected person has a weakened immune system, say, from untreated HIV. In severe cases, the disease can be fatal.   These symptoms and prognoses are characteristic of mpox, an outbreak of which is ravaging the…

In August 2024, of 5 reported cases of an infection in the South Indian state of Kerala, 3 resulted in fatalities. This infection, identified as amoebic meningoencephalitis or brain-eating amoeba infection, was linked to a pond filled with mossy green stagnant water,   The progression of amoebic meningoencephalitis is so swift that clinicians rarely ever…

“During Covid, we needed to manufacture new vaccines, based on a new immunisation approach, at very large scales and an unprecedented rate. Modular systems were a lifesaver. Pfizer installed some 13,000 square feet of modular rooms to rapidly scale up their capacity. With this upgrade, the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership went from producing 3-4 million vaccine doses…

“Health officials in the Florida Keys issue a dengue fever alert”   “Dengue cases in Bengaluru cross 2,000; over 9K residents tested since January 1”   “A record surge in dengue cases in Latin America spurs a warning”   “Burkina Faso: more than 350 deaths from dengue fever in a month”   “Dengue will ‘take…

The diabetes burden in LMICs. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), there were 164,400 adult cases of diabetes in Burkina Faso in 2021.   Nigeria, with a larger overall population, had 3,623,500 adults with diabetes in 2021.   In Kenya, the number stood at 821,500.   In Côte d’Ivoire, it was 231,200.   The…

June 2024 was the warmest June on record. May 2024 was the warmest May on record. The same goes for April, March, February… back to June 2023.   June 2024 was also the 12th consecutive month in which global temperatures reached 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average recorded between 1850 and 1900. Steady, undeniable progress towards…

As a medical oncologist and Executive Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute, Dr Jackson Orem has decades of experience in oncology research. In an article in Nature’s Communications Medicine, he shed light on the complexity and dynamism of cancer care, a practice based deeply on evolving research and advancing technologies.   Drawing from his extensive…