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 ...

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 ...

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

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 ...

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.

Family, a structured psychosocial intervention for people with dementia and their family carers, has been tested in a single-masked, phase 3, superiority, randomised controlled trial.1 The economic ...

Triple-negative breast cancer is a subgroup of breast cancer with scarce targeted treatment options, resulting in a poor ...

Assessment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis is crucial for the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B. The presence of at least moderate liver fibrosis is an important indication for antiviral ...