In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health ...

When staff at my hospital asked me repeatedly, “Are you ready to join the on-call schedule?”, I felt both discouraged and inadequate. I understood they hoped to lower the on-call demands facing my ...

Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, ...

Malaysia has a new national plan to tackle cancer, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory conditions in a single approach. Jacqui Thornton reports.

Physician who campaigned for equitable access to insulin and trained a new generation of global health clinicians. Born on June 25, 1943, in north London, UK, he died there after a short illness on ...

There is a wide field of unofficial candidates. Whoever succeeds will take the helm of an agency in turmoil. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

We have many challenges but at the same time we have a lot of strength”, says Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

The addition of hormone therapy to radiotherapy improves overall survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer, over radiotherapy alone.1 Mechanisms proposed to explain this effect include ...

As the population ages, China will face an ever-increasing burden from CS. Strategies targeting elder population and high-risk groups should be prioritized in the establishment of management related ...

US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...

Clinicians frequently rely on expert opinions, which are sometimes later disproven by randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

The weaponisation of restricting digital connectivity has been increasingly normalised. In 2024, governments imposed 296 internet shutdowns across 54 countries, with at least 72 directly linked to ...