Except when we fly, or see rockets and missiles, we mostly ignore the air we breathe. But when the air becomes poisoned with ...

Countries are cutting funding and focusing more on regional efforts to deter migration rather than humanitarian relief.

Influential health policy expert who focused on women's health. Born on Nov 5, 1958, in Jacksonville, FL, USA, she died of ...

Eminent infectious diseases and global health expert, and global pioneer of sexually transmitted infection research died on ...

As an autistic adult, even the word meltdown is humiliating. A shameful part of my past, no longer relevant to a senior doctor, or so I would like to think. And yet the reality is different. Some 2 ...

For many reasons, including sensitivity and stigma surrounding the locations of these cancers, gynaecological cancers are ...

In 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the science-rooted Endangerment Finding, stating that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future ...

Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in ...

Some gut–brain neuromodulators are efficacious in reducing global symptoms and abdominal pain in IBS. The findings support ...

Programmes to build a more representative US health-care workforce are under attack, despite the long-standing under-representation of health-care providers from racially and ethnically minoritised ...

The FINISH trial by Rahul Raj and colleagues offers key insights into the surgical management of chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH) by evaluating the efficacy of irrigation during burr-hole drainage.1 ...

Recent budget cuts to organisations central to US and international health—for example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease ...