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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist ...

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.

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.