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GIJN launches comprehensive guide on ‘Investigating Health and Medicine’

The PICO (patient, intervention, comparator, and outcome) criteria was a useful tool that the authors presented to help ask the right questions with reference to clinical trials for vaccines, development of drugs, and the healthcare industry in general. By Jisha KrishnanThe two-day Misinformation in Medicine Summit ended with a bang. The last session saw the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) launch a comprehensive guide on ‘Investigating Health and Medicine’.“During the pandemic, many journalists have been forced to become healthcare experts overnight – no easy task. The guide aim...

US-British trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for Hepatitis C discovery

Stockholm (AFP) - Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, paving the way for a cure, the Nobel jury said.The three were honoured for their "decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world." The World Health Organization estimates there are around 70 million Hepatitis C infections globally, causing around 400,000 deaths each year. It is characterized by poor appet...

Nobel laureates say 'political will' needed to end virus outbreaks

New York (AFP) - Technological advancements and international cooperation have accelerated scientific understanding of COVID-19 but it will take political will to end virus outbreaks, the new Nobel laureates in medicine said Monday.Americans Charles Rice of The Rockefeller University and Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health were honored along with Briton Michael Houghton for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.In separate press conferences, the laureates noted how long it had taken them to achieve their results. "It is a long story, kind of a 50 years saga," said 85-year-old Al...

US-British trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for Hepatitis C discovery

Stockholm (AFP) - Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury said.The three were honoured for their "decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world," the jury said.Thanks to their discovery, highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available and these have "essentially eliminated post-transfusion hepatitis in many parts of the world, greatl...