A US federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump Administration's seizure of more than US$11 billion in already dispersed ...

Except when we fly, or see rockets and missiles, we mostly ignore the air we breathe. But when the air becomes poisoned with ...

Influential health policy expert who focused on women's health. Born on Nov 5, 1958, in Jacksonville, FL, USA, she died of ...

Although there is wide variation in the cause, location, and characteristics of chronic wounds, collectively, chronic wounds ...

Countries are cutting funding and focusing more on regional efforts to deter migration rather than humanitarian relief.

In 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the science-rooted Endangerment Finding, stating that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future ...

As an autistic adult, even the word meltdown is humiliating. A shameful part of my past, no longer relevant to a senior doctor, or so I would like to think. And yet the reality is different. Some 2 ...

Programmes to build a more representative US health-care workforce are under attack, despite the long-standing under-representation of health-care providers from racially and ethnically minoritised ...

Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in ...

In December, 2021, all 194 Member States of WHO decided to establish the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement, or other international instrument on ...

The FINISH trial by Rahul Raj and colleagues offers key insights into the surgical management of chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH) by evaluating the efficacy of irrigation during burr-hole drainage.1 ...

Gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, remains a major public health threat globally. In 2020, WHO estimated 82·4 million new global gonorrhoea cases among ...