The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.

Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical care, leading to many millions of additional years of healthy life globally. Some examples of disease areas in which ...

The challenges of translating neuroprotective interventions with promising efficacy in animal studies into effective treatments for patients with stroke are well documented, with issues including ...

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has launched the world's largest prospective trial of using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess routine mammogram screenings. Nearly 700 000 women who have ...

Alcohol use disorder is a prevalent and major but preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing several ...

Diabetes UK reported that more than 12 million people in the UK are now living with diabetes or prediabetes. The total ...

Each year in the USA, alcohol use contributes to nearly 100 000 new cancer cases and 20 000 deaths from cancer, according to ...

In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history. As of Jan 31, 67 patients in the Kansas City metropolitan area had active infections and 79 ...

The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...