Despite being one of the richest countries in Europe, Ireland is the only European country without universal coverage of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We read with great interest the meta-analysis of individual patient data by Holger Thiele and colleagues,1 which suggests that judicious patient selection for mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is ...

Health research emanating from Africa is scarce, despite the continent's share of 18% of the world population and 25% of the disease burden.1 This situation in part stems from the poor research ethics ...

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 ...

The Comment by Patricia J García and colleagues,1 calling for the creation of a new health agency for Latin America, pays no justice to the role of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). For ...

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