The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human ...

As of Jan 21, 2025, firefighters in southern California, USA, were still struggling to extinguish two of the largest ...

The harsh reality for the millions of people living in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is that every breath they take puts their health at risk. The city is at the top of the world's most polluted ...

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 ...

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.

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

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

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 ...

Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

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.

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 ...