Top UN economic experts have hailed India's $260bn stimulus package to revive the economy as ‘impressive’. Launching the World Economic Situation and Prospect (WESP) report on 13 May 2020, lead author Hamid Rashid said the package is the ‘largest so far in the developing countries’ at 10% of GDP.
South Korea’s largest chemical company LG Chem suffered two deadly disasters in the wake of Covid-19.
About 100m Americans suffer pain, roughly a quarter of them experiencing pain that interferes with their daily lives. Current treatments typically involve opioid analgesics, which are prone to misuse and carry a baggage of side effects.
India ranked 168th of 180 countries in terms of environmental performance, according to the latest edition of the biennial Environmental Performance Index (EPI) published by Yale University in June 2020.
Niger has become the 15th country in Africa to report an outbreak of the circulated vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Despite overwhelming genetic evidence to support the involvement of the AB protein in the pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), previous efforts targeting the protein have led to many disappointing clinical trial failures.
The past year has seen several positive developments on the gene therapy front, according to experts at the digital BIO meeting in June 2020.
Teams are gearing up for the next nanocar Grand Prix, with ten entrants prepping nano vehicles for the Race in Toulouse in 2021. Now, scientists in Japan and France have reported a new family of nanocars ahead of the big event.
The strain on resources due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be felt by healthcare systems worldwide for a decade or longer.
Energy ministers have called on the European Commission to back up its focus on hydrogen fuel with funding and legislation. The Commission was set to publish its EU hydrogen strategy as C&I went to press in July 2020.