Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia affects approximately 30 000 individuals worldwide.1,2 Patients have untreated high ...

A new initiative, led by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of ...

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 ...

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.

When I spoke to researcher Catherine Draper, she was about to travel to work in a rural area of South Africa. Draper is Associate Professor in the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research ...

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.

Foreign-born practitioners in the health professions are critical to the health-care labour force in many high-income countries. In addition, both immigrant and non-immigrant health professionals have ...

We thank our colleagues for their interest in our Article.1 In response to Ari R Joffe, we provided estimates of the number of severe outcomes associated with a fully vaccinated counterfactual. These ...

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 ...

WHO disease outbreak news report1 on malaria underscores the challenges posed in DR Congo and neighbouring regions.2 The update identifies acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria, with 891 ...

We thank the authors for their interest in our paper, and their queries. In response to Yue Li and Guangsen Liu, given the current situation of malaria deaths and cases increasing in recent years,1 it ...

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine offers the highest efficacy in the history of malaria vaccine development as reported by Mehreen Datoo and colleagues.1 The potential for saving the lives of African ...