While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.
Malaysia has a new national plan to tackle cancer, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory conditions in a single approach. Jacqui Thornton reports.
Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...
There is a wide field of unofficial candidates. Whoever succeeds will take the helm of an agency in turmoil. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, ...
In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health ...
The addition of hormone therapy to radiotherapy improves overall survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer, over radiotherapy alone.1 Mechanisms proposed to explain this effect include ...
US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...
Clinicians frequently rely on expert opinions, which are sometimes later disproven by randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
When staff at my hospital asked me repeatedly, “Are you ready to join the on-call schedule?”, I felt both discouraged and inadequate. I understood they hoped to lower the on-call demands facing my ...
This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...
Cut off from Venezuelan oil, Cuba is facing increasing pressure including on its ailing health system. Joe Parkin Daniels ...
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