Oxygen therapy is lifesaving for people with acute illness, life-sustaining for people undergoing anaesthesia and surgical care, and life-enhancing for people with chronic respiratory failure. The ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

In January, 2025, several executive orders were issued limiting federal funding for gender-affirming health care, declaring that there are only two biological sexes, and halting diversity programmes.1 ...

Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical care, leading to many millions of ...

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”; whether it is the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr or others who have ...

Lyn Iemma, aged 75 years at the time of writing, would not describe her life as dramatic. Born and raised in Perth, WA, Australia, this thriving but relaxed city is the place she has always called ...

Sparked by a flurry of executive orders in the first week of taking power, and evolving at dizzying pace, the new US administration has taken a wrecking ball to health-related services and research ...

The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...