More than ever, the climate crisis is becoming a health crisis. An estimated 5 million people globally die each year because of suboptimal temperatures,1 with a large proportion of heat-related ...
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH), a rare condition that affects about one in 300 000 individuals worldwide, ...
Health is political. This is what many practitioners of public and clinical health believe. Health and health policy are ...
Our findings suggest that multiple monkeypox virus strains are co-circulating in the human population, highlighting the need for implementation of expanded mpox surveillance, especially in countries ...
On Sept 27, 2024, Rwanda's Ministry of Health confirmed the nation's first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. As of Oct 14, 2024, there have been 62 reported cases and 15 deaths from the virus, ...
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has lost its way in terms of polio eradication by focusing on eliminating the poliovirus with mass rounds of the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).1,2 The result ...
Locally advanced cervical cancer remains a substantial source of mortality, particularly in low-resource settings.1 ...
Discerning the motivation or intention behind people's actions is a fundamental part of much psychiatric investigation. When ...
Self-harm is complicated. The term can encompass any number of different behaviours, carried out with varied, often opaque, ...
Adolescents are spending increasing amounts of time immersed in a digital world—checking messages on X, counting likes on ...
Self-harm is an understudied area, where there is huge scope to improve knowledge about how best to help people”, says Paul ...
There are huge studies of human genetics and health, but almost all are focused on people of European origin. The Genes & Health Study aims to be different. Talha Burki reports.