South Africa is introducing a major change to public-sector asthma care, moving away from reliance on salbutamol-only relief ...

Immigration detention centres in Italy constitute a substantive health risk for detainees, including risks of infectious and non-communicable diseases and mental health problems1,2 A 2024 report3 ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, also known as the Third Pole, is warming faster than the global average, with mountain environments experiencing particularly rapid climatic change and climatic ...

The Thirlwall Inquiry1 was set up to examine events at the Countess of Chester Hospital (Chester, UK) and their implications following convictions for murder and attempted murder of babies by nurse ...

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agents can now work through files and applications on a user's computer.1,2 By ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha ...

Yellow fever is an important public health problem, but vaccine manufacturing cannot be scaled up easily, making it necessary ...

Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

Simple oral direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has transformed clinical management and paved the way for elimination.1 The first pan-genotypic fixed-dose ...

American television series The Pitt may have redefined the popularity of medical drama, but hospitals have always provided a rich seam for creatives, whether their medium is page or screen. From ...

We agree with Eric J Suba that current global inequalities in cervical cancer burden are driven largely by unequal access to effective screening programmes. This point was highlighted by Brisson and ...

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on ...