@katlay

Global health correspondent

 London
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Joined August 2008
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Great and tragic news at once. Emmanuel, the 5-year old featured in this report, has since recovered and left the Ebola ward, his father told me. But the lab technician I met in the next ward deteriorated and died last night. His name was Bienfaits. nytimes.com/video/world/afri…

Video: What I Saw Inside an Ebola Ward

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, walked inside an Ebola ward where both adults and children were being treated, and where someone had recently died of the disease amid a spiraling...

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NEW:🚨 We finally know how the pandemic began! (No, not that one) The extremely surprising role of volcanoes in causing the Black Death to spread to medieval Europe and wipe out half the continent's population 🌋🦠 thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

How volcanoes triggered the Black Death in medieval Europe

Eruptions wiped out crops in the Mediterranean forcing cities to import grain from the east, bringing with it fleas infected with bubonic plague

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When I last spoke to Mohamed Douda, he said RSF fighters were searching for him and threatening him online. When they seized El Fasher last week, where he was hiding, they killed him. These are some of our conversations during his final months alive. theguardian.com/global-devel…

He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true...

For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are...

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🚨 Imposter alert 🚨 Studies into everything from cancer and HIV being plagued by "fraudulent" participants Includes people pretending to have the diseases It's undermining the reliability of trials and potentially harming patients Stark warning here: thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

Is this response real? Imposters are putting health studies at risk

Automated bots and people lying about their conditions risk skewing the results of medical research, Oxford academics have warned

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Proud to work with @katlay on this piece. I saw myself how aid cuts in Yemen leave mothers without care and families without answers. Grateful to those who shared their stories. Please read. theguardian.com/global-devel…

Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen

While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were...

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Who'd want to be Archbishop of Canterbury?! We'll soon find out who's got the job But how are they chosen? Who's in the frame? And what happens next? Is there any conclave-style ceremony to it? Peer behind the cloak of confidentiality, as I explain all: thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…

The ancient rituals to install the new Archbishop of Canterbury

As Sarah Mullally formally succeeds Justin Welby, here’s our visual guide to the pomp and ceremony

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NEW: How a plague of 'mirror bacteria' could wipe out all life on Earth 🦠💀🌍 Creating microbes in the lab with ‘backwards’ molecules could lead to wonder drugs — or kill all living things on the planet. Is it worth the risk? Click here to read⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

How a plague of ‘mirror bacteria’ could destroy all life on Earth

Creating microbes in the lab with ‘backwards’ molecules could lead to wonder drugs — or kill all living things on the planet. Is it worth the risk?

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Perfect combo of my two roles as Science and Religious Affairs Correspondent at @TheTimes ⚛️✝️ Pope Leo hails "remarkable" James Webb Space Telescope Says it has revealed wonders that the "authors of ancient scriptures" could only dream of Read here: thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…

Pope Leo: James Webb telescope shows us what the Bible couldn’t

New Pope tells summer-schoolers at the Vatican Observatory that the telescope’s insight into creation brings ‘mysterious joy’

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Grow a 'baby in a bag' ? 🚼🎒 Most Brits are strongly opposed to use of artificial wombs outside the mother for developing foetuses. Apart from Gen Z, who back it. Public *does* support concept when mother or baby's life is at risk, however 👇⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

Grow a ‘baby in a bag’? Gen Z backs the use of artificial wombs

Scientists want to conduct human trials on supporting premature babies outside of their mother’s bodies, but the British public has reservations

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🛰️🌕 NEW: The James Webb Space Telescope has just turned its gaze on a star far, far away to hunt for... ...the first confirmed '𝗲𝘅𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻' - a moon outside our own Solar System The telescope is really being "pushed to its limits" on this study: thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…

Scientists use space telescope to step up hunt for first ‘exomoon’

Astronomers believe a gas giant the same size as Jupiter but 1,115 light years away is a prime candidate for discovering the first moon outside our solar system

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Millions of teenagers in Africa have undiagnosed asthma – study theguardian.com/global-devel…

Millions of teenagers in Africa have undiagnosed asthma – study

Rapid urbanisation thought to be damaging adolescent health, as researchers say need for medication and diagnostic tests is urgent

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Europe’s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis dlvr.it/TFJxZ5
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‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries dlvr.it/TDxyRH
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World leaders declare target of 10% reduction in superbug deaths by 2030 theguardian.com/global-devel…

World leaders declare target of 10% reduction in superbug deaths by 2030

Commitment at UN general assembly comes amid warnings that antimicrobial resistance could undo a century of medical progress

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Drug-resistant infections are on the rise. so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics? theguardian.com/global-devel…

Drug-resistant infections are on the rise. so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

World leaders will meet in New York this month to discuss growing antimicrobial resistance as researchers warn the development of replacement drugs is stalling

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1 Thread on #mpox which is in the news again since a returning traveller was diagnosed in Sweden with a new more dangerous strain which reached Europe for the first time. In the 2022-23 global outbreak I was clinical advisor to @WHOEurope Here’s what I think you need to know.
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"A new drug described as “the closest we have ever been to an HIV vaccine” could cost $40 (£31) a year for every patient, a thousand times less than its current price, new research suggests." @katlay on Prof Andrew Hill's new research into Lenacapavir theguardian.com/global-devel…
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EXCLUSIVE: Kids flying into space? 🧒🏻👩🏼‍🚀 NASA's chief doctor says it could happen 👨🏻‍⚕️🚀 Era of "access to space for ordinary individuals" is coming faster than anyone thought, Dr JD Polk told me Read the fascinating interview in full here in @TheTimes: thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…
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How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa theguardian.com/global-devel…

How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

One of the continent’s leading medics, Jean Kaseya, has made it his mission to help the 116m people in African countries with mental health conditions

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📢 @katlay has written for the @guardian on the latest evidence of PMIs manipulation of science for profit, based on our recent research paper. theguardian.com/global-devel…
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