The current global health financing emergency is not only creating a service delivery crisis;1 it threatens hard-won health research and life science ecosystems in low-income and middle-income ...

Women's bodily autonomy and health, particularly with regard to abortion, are under attack. The politicisation of women's ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are everywhere. These tiny particles—formed by abrasion, fragmentation, and open burning of plastics—are found in the ocean, the Arctic, Himalayan glaciers, air, ...

Corals have long captured the medical imagination. As Earth heats up, we might want to take our linked fates more seriously. It is easy to see how rising temperatures threaten humans and corals alike.

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.

Vanuatu has a long history of natural disasters. But a combination of traditional knowledge and a simple warning system have kept deaths remarkably low. Chris McCall reports.

The term signe de cils was introduced in the late 19th century and is attributed to Achille Souques, one of the most ...

In the 2000s, when the AIDS pandemic hit South Africa, we were seeing a lot of children dying from HIV. That was just before ...

Japan's scientific standing has faced a quiet crisis over the past two decades. Although it maintained high absolute research and development spending, Japan's global share of the top 10% of highly ...

French President Emmanuel Macron promises action on One Health, with a suite of pledges announced at the ninth One Health Summit. Faith McLellan reports from Lyon.

We read with interest the World Report by Dinesh C Sharma on Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam (MTM, which translates as Reaching out Health Services to People), describing the expansion of doorstep delivery ...

The disparity in global childhood cancer survival is well known: survival probabilities exceed 80% in high-income countries, whereas they remain around 30% in low-income countries.1–3 But there are ...