Trained on smelly socks, bio-detection dogs sniff out COVID-19 Sniffer dogs trained using smelly socks worn by people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus could soon be used at airports or mass ...

Kate Kelland, who covers health and science in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for the wire service, has been on the performance beat since the opening ceremony, digging into the latest research ...

Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among Covid-19 patients in what scientists hailed as a "major breakthrough". UK scientists ...

By Kate Kelland LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Nearly half of staff working in intensive care units (ICU) in England in the COVID-19 pandemic have severe anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress ...

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As Kate Kelland at Reuters reports, the backers are calling the extensive initiative the next “moonshot for biology.” Projected to cost $4.7 billion, it aims to sequence the DNA of the 1.5 ...

By Kate Kelland and Alistair Smout LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Scientists are resuming COVID-19 trials of the now world-famous drug hydroxychloroquine, as confusion continues to reign about the ...

according to a story by Kate Kelland at Reuters as reported at Yahoo News. These cells, grown by a team from King’s College of London, have been deposited in a public stem cell bank, the UK Stem Cell ...

Kate Kelland was an international correspondent at Reuters for 27 years, winning multiple national and international journalism awards. During the 12 of those years that she spent on the global health ...

LONDON: A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals like tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion ...

MTV drama programs about HIV and AIDS shown to young people in some of the highest-risk countries in Africa and the Caribbean had a dramatic affect on attitudes to the disease, a study released on ...