Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are a common cause of illness in children younger than 16 years and adults older than 65 ...

Meet Tom Solomon, professor of neurology at the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK) and two-times Guinness World Record ...

To tackle the ongoing high burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among people who inject drugs (PWID), WHO has set a specific incidence target among PWID of no more than two new infections per ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death globally. The treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma is complex, with diverse therapeutic approaches and their combinations available ...

Syria's health-care system has undergone profound upheaval over the past decade, shaped by conflict, fragmentation, and now, a tenuous political transition. The acute conflict phase (2011–15) ...

Street vendors, who make up a substantial portion of the informal workforce in many low-income and middle-income countries, remain largely excluded from formal health insurance coverage, which poses a ...

The challenges of translating neuroprotective interventions with promising efficacy in animal studies into effective ...

Oxygen therapy is lifesaving for people with acute illness, life-sustaining for people undergoing anaesthesia and surgical care, and life-enhancing for people with chronic respiratory failure. The ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma continues to pose a diagnostic challenge, particularly in the setting of underlying pathomorphological changes in the liver due to cirrhosis, steatosis, or steatohepatitis.

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood.