One small city's bid to rescue its health finances has transformed the way health care is managed across China. Chris McCall ...

Life, as philosopher Søren Kierkegaard put it, “must be understood backwards; but…it must be lived forwards”.1 Clinical ...

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...

Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 ...

HIV response. Experts are suggesting a projected 24% decrease in HIV funding over the next year in the context of reductions ...

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is an important condition,1 but its role as a reversible cardiovascular risk factor has been ...

Research discoveries leading to the development of new pharmaceutical compounds are notoriously difficult to translate into clinical practice.1 Drug repurposing provides a strategy to identify ...

We write to highlight an urgent, yet preventable public health tragedy unfolding in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In May, 2025, eight Indigenous Achuar children from Taisha—an Amazonic village from the ...

Lindgren and colleagues reported alarming health disparities in the Ten Americas study,1 which grouped populations based on race, ethnicity, and various geographical and sociodemographic factors. The ...

Worldwide, the incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing, with 586 202 new cases diagnosed in 2020.1 In high-income countries ...

Hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems are transforming the management of type 1 diabetes. Young children with type 1 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, estimated in 2020 to be 545 maternal deaths per 100 000 livebirths, more than 136 times higher than that of the lowest region.1 ...