Chikungunya and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) are two distinct but increasingly important vector-borne public health threats in China. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease ...

Recognition of ventilator-induced lung injury led to the development of the baby lung concept by Luciano Gattinoni1 and to ...

May is a time to elevate mental health awareness. In the USA, May is designated as Mental Health Awareness Month; Europe ...

For generations, harsh or humiliating language directed at children has been minimised as “just words”, framed as discipline, or justified as character-building. Many of us grew up in the UK learning, ...

Legislation imposing a ban on anyone in the UK born after 2008 from buying cigarettes and other tobacco products was always likely to be contentious. Predictably, The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill—shortly ...

For premenopausal women with ER-positive early breast cancer, even if chemotherapy or tamoxifen are given, OFS significantly reduces the 15-year risk of recurrence and death.

Being a neat, fastidious writer, it is fitting that Julian Barnes chose to publish his fifteenth and final novel Departure(s) on his 80th birthday. When asked by the BBC Radio 4 presenter John Wilson ...

Kwame, a 60-year-old man living 30 miles from Kumasi in Ghana, worked as a farmer and financially supported his wife, three children, and large extended family. He had always been physically fit and ...

Gyorgy Scrinis and colleagues make a strong case for moving ultra-processed food (UPF) policy beyond narrow reformulation agendas towards broader fiscal, labelling, marketing, and retail measures.1 ...

At its 158th Executive Board, the Director-General of WHO presented a report outlining global indicators to monitor the integration of rehabilitation into health systems.1 The indicators were selected ...

In 2026, cervical cancer remains a stark reminder of global health inequity, with women in low-income countries and ...

Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention ...