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New data show rise in hospital admissions for unvaccinated pregnant women

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Cooking with coal or wood associated with increased risk of major eye diseases

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Two Oxford University professors appointed first Turing Artificial Intelligence Research Fellows

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New Oxford University research will help optimize environmentally friendly ways of fertilising plants

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Oxford vaccine reaches one billion doses released

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Stressing that safe water for the world’s poor is an education issue, as well as a health issue, would help send a powerful signal at this critical time, and could help huge numbers of children, and adults, worldwide

Clean water is not just a health issue: it is critical for education

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Phase I trial begins of new vaccine against the Plague

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Daily testing for students exposed to COVID-19 may be equally as effective as isolation of contacts for controlling school transmission

Daily contact COVID-19 testing for students effective at controlling transmission in schools

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the rapid spread of the variant around the UK last year has major implications for the treatment of other variant outbreaks, because it resulted from multiple ‘exports’. It was, in fact, a major ‘super-seeding’ event, with the variant ‘exported’ numerous

Alpha variant spread via ‘super-seeding’ event: warning over COVID-19 variants

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inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low and lower-middle income countries unless there is urgent action to make vaccines affordable and accessible to everyone

Urgent need for COVID-19 vaccine equity: UN-Oxford research

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