The treatment of many patients with peripheral artery disease is not optimal, and indeed is much worse than that in patients ...

The study by Sari Reisner and colleagues1 in The Lancet HIV on gender-affirming hormone therapy and its effect on HIV ...

The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

As the world's most populous democracy, India's financial commitments to public health care, particularly mental health care, should be reflected in meaningful budgetary allocations. However, although ...

The spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder of the AKDN. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec 13, 1936, he ...

I spent an afternoon at Keats House in Hampstead, London, UK. John Keats (1795–1821) began an apprenticeship to a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true. Was the virus transmitted via surfaces or airborne particles? Which drugs ...

Trump's ban on gender-affirming surgery and medication for minors is clashing with anti-discrimination law. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Syria's health-care system has been devastated over a past decade of armed conflict, compounded by long-standing, systematic neglect under the Assad dictatorship. As a result, many populations have ...

Cancer screening tests can be divided into early detection and preventive tests.1 Early-detection tests (eg, mammography for ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many states failed to meet their human rights obligations and commitments to equity, as Lawrence O Gostin and colleagues elaborate.1 Surprisingly, the authors omit rights ...

Recurrent outbreaks of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) pose substantial threats to Africa's health systems. Despite advancements such as vaccines and therapeutics, successful outbreak containment ...