The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human ...

As of Jan 21, 2025, firefighters in southern California, USA, were still struggling to extinguish two of the largest ...

The harsh reality for the millions of people living in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is that every breath they take puts their health at risk. The city is at the top of the world's most polluted ...

In their Article, the HDR UK COALESCE Consortium concluded that those who are fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 are less likely to be admitted to hospital and to die with COVID-19.1 If the tests for ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common chronic systemic disease associated with uveitis in childhood. Uveitis occurs in 11–22% of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.1 Due to the ...

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission has accused Saima Wazed of securing her position thanks to her mother, Bangladesh's former Prime Minister. Samaan Lateef reports.

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

I am writing to voice concerns over the findings of the phase 3 trial of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine by Mehreen Datoo and colleagues.1 The study indicates that the vaccine's efficacy appears to ...

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ...

As wildfires rage across Los Angeles (CA, USA), the region's health systems are confronting an extraordinary test, exposing vulnerabilities that demand urgent attention. The crisis has revealed not ...

Polio is a highly viral infectious disease that poses a life-threating risk to young children, often leading to paralysis and death, and children who are not fully immunised are especially vulnerable.