The Lancet

COVID vaccines: the danger of journals being seen as substitute regulators

3:22 pm May 21, 2021

London: By Christoffer van Tulleken, UCL London, May 21 (The Conversation) A superficial reading of the history of vaccination might lead you to believe that it is simple. Dried smallpox pustules had been used for 1,000 years to inoculate people against smallpox before the first successful vaccine trial, conducted by Edward Jenner in 1796 on a single eight-year-old boy. […]

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Study predicts India’s population may peak to 1.6 bn in 2048, decline in 2100 to 1.09 bn

10:36 pm July 15, 2020

New Delhi: Scientists have predicted that the India’s population may peak to about 1.6 billion in 2048, and decline by 32 per cent to around 1.09 billion in 2100, when it is also expected to be the world’s most populous country. The analysis, published in the journal The Lancet, used data from the Global Burden of […]