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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 25.01.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Drug-resistant typhoid The frontline treatment for typhoid is no longer effective due to drug resistance, according to a Wellcome...
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We must stop squandering our precious antibiotics
After the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos last week, drug-resistant infection remains high on the international agenda. Earlier this month, we posted an explainer giving a broad overview...
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Image of the Week: Aedes aegypti
This week, there has been growing concern over the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil. Now detected in over 20 countries, the World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee to discuss...
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Zika virus outbreak in the Americas
The World Health Organisation (WHO) today declared the Zika virus outbreak in South and Central American a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). It is the first time since the Ebola...
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Image of the Week: a ‘Movember’ special
This week’s image of the week is a ‘Movember’ special, celebrating Henry Wellcome’s moustache through the ages.* From a questionable goatee in the 1880s to a more restrained turn of the century ‘tache,...
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Public Engagement Events Listing – February 2016
It’s a Leap Year – what will you do with your extra day this February? Why not check out one of these fantastic Wellcome Trust supported events? Performances Nobody’s Home – UK tour – 12th...
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Image of the Week: An Unconscious Naked Man
A new exhibition opened at Wellcome Collection this week. ‘States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness’ explores our understanding of the conscious experience from different perspectives....
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 08.01.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Calling the shots A Hib booster is not necessary for toddlers to extend immunity into later childhood, according to new research...
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Sharing data during Zika and other global health emergencies
We’re joining over 30 global health bodies in calling for all research data gathered during the Zika virus outbreak, and future public health emergencies, to be made available as rapidly and openly...
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Image of the Week: Medicine and Healing in India
Our image of the week is taken from Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India just one of the exhibitions featuring as part of Wellcome Collection’s yearlong multi-city art project, Medicine Corner. The...
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What we need to find out about Zika and pregnancy
Researchers across the world are urgently studying the virus to understand more about its effects on unborn babies Until a few months ago, Zika virus had done little to attract attention since it first...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 22.02.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Eye-catching research Genetic changes may increase the chances that children with the bacterial eye infection trachoma, will suffer...
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Zika: Q&A with the mapping expert
Simon Hay is Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, Research Fellow in the Sciences and...
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Zika: Q&A with the climate expert
Madeleine Thomson directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Malaria Early Warning Systems and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth...
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Zika: Q&A with the medical anthropologist
Sharon Abramowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida What do you do? As a medical anthropologist in West Africa, I teach, research...
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Public Engagement Events Listing – March 2016
Spring is on the way, so with the days getting lighter and longer, it’s time to get out and along to one of these excellent Wellcome Trust supported events (but there’s plenty to tune into from home...
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€1m Brain Prize awarded to three British neuroscientists
Three British neuroscientists have been awarded the world’s most valuable prize for brain research for their outstanding work on the mechanisms of memory. This year’s winners of the €1m Euro Brain...
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Image of the Week: Zika
The Zika virus appears to have emerged from nowhere, causing widespread health concerns throughout the world after decades of relative silence. Why has this occurred now, and what can we do to prevent...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 07.03.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Deep roots Complete sequencing of Aboriginal Australian men’s Y chromosome reveals a long genetic history that stretches back 50,000...
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How do people feel about companies accessing health data?
The Wellcome Trust recently commissioned Ipsos MORI to look into what people think about commercial organisations having access to health data from patient records. Although a better system of access...
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