I will never forget that fateful moment when I was just 11 years old, walking back home from school with my friend. Unfortunately, our return coincided with a military convoy of the Syrian regime. A ...

On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine as well as for people who ...

The year 2025 marks the 85th anniversary of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions, yet it arrives ...

American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented ...

In 2024, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved lecanemab for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease in patients without contraindications or risk factors for side-effects. This approval ...

Gene therapy has emerged as a promising approach to previously untreatable conditions, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive disorder caused by DMD mutations that leads to early ...