As historians we rarely predict the future since we are trained to look at the past, draw lessons from it, and identify ...

The actions of the US Government are causing serious harm to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally, and more threats loom. The gutting of the US Agency for International ...

As scientists, health professionals, and lawyers engaged in reducing pandemic spillover risks, we recognise the urgent need for, and immense potential of, a robust international agreement on pandemic ...

Reducing the maternal mortality rate due to postpartum haemorrhage depends on the ability of health-care teams to identify pregnant women at higher risk of bleeding, to timely and accurately detect ...

The global health landscape stands at a critical inflection point. Multilateral organisations, including WHO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and ...

Belarusian political prisoners report worsening medical care, particularly since a crackdown on political dissent. Ed Holt reports.

Suzanne O’Sullivan, author and consultant in neurology and clinical neurophysiology at the National Hospital for Neurology ...

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain.

Nearly 300 000 women die every year due to pregnancy or childbirth. Substantial inroads in reducing maternal mortality were made during the early part of the 21st century, but progress has stalled ...

We thank Yutaka Shimazu for his constructive comments on our HD21 trial.1 In the PET-2 positive cohort, 165 (69%) of 240 patients treated with brentuximab vedotin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, ...

On World AIDS Day 2024, UNAIDS proposed use of a human rights-based approach to end the HIV pandemic by 2030.1 Their approach is centred on achieving equity in access to HIV prevention and treatment, ...

China's persistent decline in fertility rates and the accompanying demographic shift towards an ageing population have brought challenges to the country's health-care system, particularly in the realm ...