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Sir Mark Rowley became the head of UK counterterror policing shortly before Isis declared its “caliphate” in 2014. A wider lack of trust was one of the factors that saw the Metropolitan Police put in special measures by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in June, with a letter raising concerns about the handling of the murder of Sarah Everard by serving …
The story so far: On October 6, the World Health Organization made a historic announcement, endorsing the first-ever malaria vaccine, RTS,S, among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and in other regions with moderate-to-high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission. Editorial | Killing the chills: On the malaria vaccine As Matthew B. Laurens argues in a paper in Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics : “An …
The triumphs of science are best appreciated when they make human lives easier or safer, or simply, offer hope. The first ever World Health Organization -approved anti-malaria vaccine must count among those triumphs. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom rightly termed it as a historic moment, achieving a breakthrough not only for malaria control but also child health and science itself. …