In 2019, revelations that American financier Jeffrey Epstein had orchestrated a powerful international network for human trafficking and sexual exploitation shocked the conscience of global society.
The devastation caused by COVID-19 brought pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR) to the forefront of the global political agenda. But in many quarters, global attention has waned amid ...
For the first time in the history of both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the International Space Station, a crew medical concern prompted an unprecedented evacuation, ...
The African Union, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has operationalised strategies on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), injuries, and mental health to reverse the ...
The disparity in global childhood cancer survival is well known: survival probabilities exceed 80% in high-income countries, whereas they remain around 30% in low-income countries.1–3 But there are ...
Despite its enormous global burden, osteoarthritis has no licensed disease-modifying treatments, and available analgesics have moderate efficacy and substantial side-effects.1 The success of ...
My mom and I left Iran when I was 5 years old, just the two of us…there had been the revolution in 1979, so it was a combination of factors, wanting to get her PhD, but also wanting to get away from ...
David Beran and colleagues argue that the GLP-1 receptor agonists might not have been appropriate for addition to the 2025 WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) for three reasons.e First, the authors ...
Ophthalmology pioneered the clinical use of artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond automating routine tasks, including retinal ...
Russell Winwood's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis in 2011 was a brutal wake-up call. His second in less than a decade. The Brisbane native, who came to be known as the “COPD ...
I commend Florian A Wenzl and colleagues for extending the use of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) 3.0 ...
Recent announcements by the US Government linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism in offspring highlight the risks of misinterpreting observational research to inform policy; this is a ...