The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical care, leading to many millions of ...

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist Daniel S Goldberg in a paper on the history of “malingerers”. He gives ...

Diabetes UK reported that more than 12 million people in the UK are now living with diabetes or prediabetes. The total ...

The challenges of translating neuroprotective interventions with promising efficacy in animal studies into effective treatments for patients with stroke are well documented, with issues including ...

The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...

Estimated geographical and temporal distribution of lung-cancer incidence varied across the four main subtypes worldwide. Our ...

In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history. As of Jan 31, 67 patients in the Kansas City metropolitan area had active infections and 79 ...

The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) faces a pivotal moment, confronting one of its most challenging ...