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The world needs a new vaccine to fight tuberculosis (TB). A new multimillion-pound global study funded by Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could provide a…

Many people in the UK feel a strong sense of regional identity, and it now appears that there may be a scientific basis to this feeling, according to a landmark new study…

Wellcome Collection’s first digital story, ‘Mindcraft: A century of madness, murder and mental healing’, publishes online today.

Doctors and nurses are joining global demands for action on climate change – and because of their skills they have the potential for huge influence.

Wellcome is funding the UK’s Office for National Statistics to develop metrics to measure and track how climate change is impacting our health.

The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', is now open for applications. The annual prize is now in its fourth year of…

It’s time to see health misinformation differently. We’re calling for the health and research sector to step up and play its role in creating a healthier internet.

The G20 Global Health Summit in Rome this week could change the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, but only if political leaders decide to fully finance the ACT-Accelerator.

The first meeting of Wellcome’s new steering group for Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) takes place this week. It’s the next step in our commitment to increasing the…

There's a vital set of tools to help us tackle the threat of superbugs that we're not using to their full potential. Vaccines.

Almost every major breakthrough in human and veterinary medicine has depended on the use of animals to research, develop or test new therapies.

We want to pioneer 'deliberative dialogue' to involve a more diverse range of people in discussions about health challenges.  

The Covid-19 pandemic is global, and to bring the pandemic to a close, a collaborative, global approach is needed. But why is it so important that all countries have access…

Covid-19 isn’t the first time the world has had to deal with a global pandemic – and it won’t be the last. But lessons learned from previous disease outbreaks, such as HIV/…

Coivd-19 is transforming every aspect of society – and research is no exception. But how can we use what we’ve learned in the past six months to build a better research…

Critics warned against the UK policy of leaving a longer gap between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. Now we have more data, what…

What is the evidence on what works, and what doesn't, for improving vaccination rates and saving lives?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to reshape science and health. Three experts share the potential benefits and pitfalls of AI in health research.

We called for collective global effort to fund, research, develop and bring effective Covid-19 treatments to people as soon as possible.

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