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The Translational Genomics Research (TGen) Institute in Arizona have ramped up their testing facilities to help tackle COVID-19 and its threat to global health. TGen is a non-profit genomics research institute which seeks to employ genetic discoveries to improve disease outcomes by developing smarter diagnostics and targeted therapeutics. Since the beginning of the year TGen...

We are currently living in times of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is a difficult time for anyone trying to continue with their business as normal. Everyone has had to try and adapt to the current situation and here are ways that recruiters can respond to the difficulties COVID-19 has brought to our work lives. Social Media Think about what candidates and clien...

A Singapore modelling study has stated that the impact of physical distancing is the most effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. A new modelling study which was conducted and simulated in Singapore has come to the conclusion that a combined approach of physical distancing, quarantine, school closures and workplace distancing is the most effective way of reducing the n...

New recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to prevent tuberculosis (TB) and save millions of lives around the world. This new guidance will help countries accelerate their efforts to stop people with TB infection becoming sick by giving them preventive treatment. Around a quarter of the world’s population is said to be infected with TB bacteria - but t...

WhatsApp has teamed up with WHO, UNICEF and UNDP to help fight against the coronavirus by launching the WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub. The initiative has back up from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organisation (WHO) AND UNICEF, along with a $1 million donation to the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Th...

The United Nations Health Chief has called for global solidarity to help find a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the world’s media yesterday and informed the public that just 60 days after the virus had first spread across China, vaccine trials have already begun. So far, there have been over 200,000 cases of coronavirus worldwide and...