Nearly 300 000 women die every year due to pregnancy or childbirth. Substantial inroads in reducing maternal mortality were made during the early part of the 21st century, but progress has stalled ...

Progress in reducing neonatal and under-5 mortality have stalled as experts call for greater investment in services. Udani Samarasekera reports.

As historians we rarely predict the future since we are trained to look at the past, draw lessons from it, and identify ...

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain.

Suzanne O’Sullivan, author and consultant in neurology and clinical neurophysiology at the National Hospital for Neurology ...

China's persistent decline in fertility rates and the accompanying demographic shift towards an ageing population have brought challenges to the country's health-care system, particularly in the realm ...

On World AIDS Day 2024, UNAIDS proposed use of a human rights-based approach to end the HIV pandemic by 2030.1 Their approach is centred on achieving equity in access to HIV prevention and treatment, ...

Belarusian political prisoners report worsening medical care, particularly since a crackdown on political dissent. Ed Holt reports.

The panel will seek to understand the causes of suicide among students and formulate recommendations for prevention. Dinesh C Sharma reports.

We thank Yutaka Shimazu for his constructive comments on our HD21 trial.1 In the PET-2 positive cohort, 165 (69%) of 240 patients treated with brentuximab vedotin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, ...

Peter Borchmann and colleagues1 showed the efficacy and safety of the brentuximab vedotin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine, and dexamethasone (BrECADD) regimen compared with ...

The recent study by Ndembi and colleagues on the epidemiology of mpox in Africa1 provided a thorough analysis of the disease's spread across the continent. However, we would like to highlight an ...