Sickle cell disease is a life-threatening inherited blood disorder affecting more than 100 000 Americans and millions ...

For decades, we have witnessed steady growth in the prevalence of overweight and obesity throughout the world. In some ...

In December, 2024, after more than 50 years in power in Syria, the regime of the Assad family was swept away. This dramatic ...

Since the existence of the oligometastatic disease state was posited three decades ago,1 there has been interest in ...

The Comment by Patricia J García and colleagues,1 calling for the creation of a new health agency for Latin America, pays no justice to the role of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). For ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising globally, with a disproportionate impact on individuals in low-income and ...

Trust is an implicit cornerstone of global health. Trust between nations, organisations, health-care providers, and ...

Feb 27, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) coming into force. This legally binding international treaty, the first negotiated by WHO, rapidly ...

Respiratory physician and pioneer in adolescent health. Born on Nov 2, 1948, in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, he died there from ...

Obesity is a common health problem affecting a considerable (and growing) proportion of adult populations worldwide.1 Although overweight and obesity are usually diagnosed by anthropometry, such as ...

What does it mean for a computer to think like a doctor? This question has vexed physicians working on clinical reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) for more than 70 years. The first generation of ...

The high incidence of culture-positive sepsis, case-fatality rates, and multidrug resistance among common pathogens underscores an urgent need to strengthen infection prevention and control practices, ...