The year 2025 marks the 85th anniversary of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions, yet it arrives ...

American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented ...

On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine as well as for people who ...

In 2024, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved lecanemab for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease in patients without contraindications or risk factors for side-effects. This approval ...

After more than 3 years of intense negotiations, WHO member states have finally reached a consensus on a new treaty to ...

Gene therapy has emerged as a promising approach to previously untreatable conditions, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive disorder caused by DMD mutations that leads to early ...

Shoulder dystocia is a rare but potentially serious obstetric emergency. Although many cases of shoulder dystocia are mild, ...

Gastric cancer remains a major health challenge worldwide, with nearly 1 million new cases annually contributing to more than ...

For decades, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been vital in combating HIV across the Asia–Pacific region, where nearly 7 million people live with the virus amid persistent ...

Additional disaster exposures were associated with greater declines in mental health and shifts in some risk factors.

WHO has summarised its commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) with the UHC cube diagram,1,2 a globally recognised ...

The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and ...