A series of tragic deaths has highlighted the importance of empowering community-led child support and care. By Sophie ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a multifaceted threat to the human, animal, and environment sectors. In response, China ...

If you ask an infectious diseases specialist whether we should start worrying about influenza A H5N1, they will probably tell ...

Geneva, the World Health Assembly. Sitting in a corner of the Serpent Cafe at the Palais des Nations, one can observe the collegial diversity of multilateralism. Delegates to WHO's annual convention ...

A massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote Highlands has exposed the country's limited ability to cope with natural disasters. Chris McCall reports.

Oliver Sacks's Awakenings (1973) was published over 50 years ago. It recounts a tumultuous season in the life of Beth Abraham ...

In 2008, Jane Hirst completed her clinical training in Sydney, Australia—where she was born and brought up—and moved to Viet Nam. There, she started her PhD on gestational diabetes, work that set her ...

Infectious disease specialist and pioneer investigator of Ebola virus. He was born in Chicago, IL, USA, on Dec 1, 1936 and died of kidney cancer in Chevy Chase, MD, USA, on April 6, 2024 aged 87 years ...

Obesity and undernutrition are major health challenges worldwide that demand system changes across political, food, commercial, and health systems. Health research is following social science in ...

A 57-year-old man with a 2-day history of a fever and sudden onset of bilateral hearing loss was admitted to our local infectious diseases unit. The patient had no medical history.

In the largest and longest randomised controlled trial of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) to date, Bruce L Wilkoff and colleagues showed that adaptive CRT did not significantly reduce the ...

We thank Kazuo Komamura and Mitsunori Iwase for their interest in our study.1 We agree that the reasons for no significant difference between treatment arms in the primary endpoint are multifactorial, ...