In December, 2024, after more than 50 years in power in Syria, the regime of the Assad family was swept away. This dramatic political shift illuminated the state of health in Syria, exposing ...

Obesity is a common health problem affecting a considerable (and growing) proportion of adult populations worldwide.1 Although overweight and obesity are usually diagnosed by anthropometry, such as ...

The unprecedented scale of the recent wildfires in California in January have brought the climate crisis into focus again. In many ways, the disaster feels strikingly similar to the Black Summer of ...

Respiratory physician and pioneer in adolescent health. Born on Nov 2, 1948, in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, he died there from ...

The recent study by Holger Thiele and colleagues1 offers an extensive meta-analysis on the use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in acute myocardial infarction-related cardiogenic shock (AMICS).

We thank our colleagues for their interest in our Article.1 We agree with Zaoqu Liu and colleagues that in addition to mortality assessment, quality of life and long-term functional outcomes are ...

What does it mean for a computer to think like a doctor? This question has vexed physicians working on clinical reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) for more than 70 years. The first generation of ...

Since WHO declared the Zika virus epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in 2016, there remain no licensed vaccines, therapeutics, or diagnostic tests for routine antenatal ...

A 45-year-old man from Hainan, a tropical island, who was immunocompetent presented with transient limb weakness. He reported ...

Trust is an implicit cornerstone of global health. Trust between nations, organisations, health-care providers, and ...

On Jan 24, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency responsible for distributing civilian foreign aid on behalf of the US Government, halted aid to Nigeria and ...

As World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, 2025, approaches, global health authorities yet again find themselves at a crucial juncture in efforts to tackle the continuing global emergency of tuberculosis.