Children in the PNG highlands have among the world's highest burden of OM. Urgent public health action is required, including health worker training, regular ear screening, and strategies to prevent ...

Each Olympic cycle, athletes and support staff chase the latest cutting-edge knowledge in pursuit of Gold. In the Winter ...

Modern medicine has dramatically extended lifespans, but it has been far less comfortable acknowledging its limits. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in debates on assisted dying, where ...

Neuroprotection in ischaemic stroke commonly means a treatment that results in the preservation of brain tissue in the setting of either focal or global ischaemia. The nominal focus on neuronal tissue ...

Abraham Verghese is heir to a long tradition of doctors who write, writers who also practised medicine. Some of the best ...

Pandemic preparedness in fragile and conflict-affected states is shaped less by technical deficits than by enduring political, institutional, and security constraints. Protracted conflict, chronic ...

Hospitals are protected spaces under international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, and are further safeguarded by WHO standards, which prohibit military or security force ...

A number of critical funding and staffing cuts initiated by the Trump administration, along with inadequate efforts by most ...

University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health published its report in 2014.1 At that time, progress towards the Millennium Development Goals had been made, the Sustainable Development ...

Australia's landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme has helped thousands of disabled people, but its cost has sky-rocketed to unsustainable levels. Chris McCall reports.

Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers with disabilities, especially deaf individuals, causing serious health consequences and ...

This systematic review and meta-analysis identified prognostic factors associated with early mortality in septic shock. The identification of these prognostic factors could aid in clinical risk ...