Donald G. McNeil Jr., NYT

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More funding needed for scientists to pursue clinical trials in humans

Researchers are studying a nasal spray that absorbs the coronavirus.

Gates Foundation offers grim global health report

Microsoft founder optimistic that lost ground would be recovered in ‘two to three years’

Bill Gates speaks at a conference in New York on Nov. 6, 2019. Gates, founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, wants to add $4 billion to the fiscal stimulus package under debate in Congress so that poor countries can get COVID-19 vaccines.

Amid new cases, Pakistan tweaks polio strategy

Teams will take friendlier approach, ask fewer questions and make fewer follow-up visits

A nurse administers polio vaccine drops to a child, at Mayo Hospital in Lahore, during the launching ceremony of an anti-polio campaign.

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In Africa there are 80 times as many traditional healers as medical doctors, WHO says

Samuel Muriisa, 74, an herbalist who practices traditional medicine, at his home in the hills of Kabale District, in western Uganda.

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