Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a manifestation of structural violence, the process through which societies ...

Looking for the name of Marcel Proust on search engines, it seems that the centenary of his death (1922) has gone unnoticed by medical doctors. Several essays on his illness have already been ...

The biggest misconception people have about us is that we are fragile”, says Blake Hunt, a member of Quad Gods—the first all quadriplegic Esports team that was recently documented in a film directed ...

The monkeypox virus is causing concurrent outbreaks of mpox in Africa, with more and more frequent exportations outside the ...

The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and ...

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern ...

Lebanon's people and health-care system have yet again endured devastating attacks as the war on Gaza extended into Lebanon. Since October, 2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have resulted in more than ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a systemic disease and continues to be the leading cause of infectious mortality ...

The Californian wildfires have captured global attention. The Golden State is once again engulfed in flames, with ...

When I spoke to researcher Catherine Draper, she was about to travel to work in a rural area of South Africa. Draper is Associate Professor in the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research ...

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

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 ...