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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Michelle Monje is the Milan Gambhir Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at Stanford University, CA, USA, and a Howard ...

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

Do you think children today will have a better, worse, or roughly the same life to you?” was a question posed by the Gallup Organisation in 2022 in 64 countries. Globally, only 44% of the adult ...

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 ...

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

Climate change and global warming driven by air pollution and carbon emissions are contributing to worsening respiratory health and increasing numbers of asthma-related emergencies and deaths.

Oesophageal adenocarcinoma has an extremely poor prognosis, and improving outcomes via therapy remains particularly challenging in such a heterogeneous cancer. Another avenue for improving outcomes ...