In 2013, 9-year-old Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi Debrah died following a severe asthma attack. Soon after, her family began to investigate whether her death was linked to pollution from a major road in ...

The global polio eradication hinges on timely reporting of polioviruses and rapid responses. Despite considerable efforts made during the past three decades to contain polio, the WHO African (AFRO) ...

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership aims to stimulate research for much-needed new antibiotics. Talha Burki reports.

Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroups 01 and 139, usually occurring due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This ...

In an era of technological advancement and artificial intelligence, emotions experienced by patients and health professionals are often overlooked. Shame is a powerful emotion that many clinicians ...

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 ...

Football is the most popular team sport worldwide and active participation can improve cardiovascular and respiratory ...

Tenecteplase is a third-generation thrombolytic agent that has a favourable pharmacological profile, compared with alteplase. Tenecteplase has a longer half-life, which allows administration in a ...

The COMBO-MS trial, reported in The Lancet Neurology by Tiffany Braley and colleagues,1 is the first pragmatic, randomised, controlled trial that compares head-to-head the benefits and harms of a ...

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman is head of the cerebrovascular group, honorary consultant neurologist, and clinical director of the clinical trials unit at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK), where he ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by selective degeneration of motor neurons. This process results in deterioration of muscle strength in the limbs and bulbar ...

Brain disorders are arguably the final frontier of medicine. Barriers that previously hindered the study of brain disorders can now be overcome through advances in induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell ...