On Aug 14, 2024, WHO re-declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) as a public health emergency of international concern ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the inability to treat infections affects everyone, especially individuals in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the most vulnerable groups, such as ...

A 57-year-old woman with a 12-h history of fever and severe pain in her back, pelvis, and thighs attended our hospital. 24 h ...

Our findings suggest that air pollution might be an underappreciated risk factor for physical disability in later life, ...

In 1970, with a degree from the medical school of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Professor Jens Juul Holst embarked on ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need to strengthen the European Health Union, as member states displayed uneven ...

Nicknamed “the beast”, Georgetown University star football player David Fajgenbaum had always envisioned a career in athletics. But when his mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma, Fajgenbaum changed ...

Vaccination is the most effective tool to control rabies. Vaccine regimens have been shown to be close to 100% effective,1 with many countries vaccinating dogs and cats as a measure to prevent and ...

Rabies remains a substantial global health challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings, where its impact is most profound. Despite the conceptual appeal of the One Health approach, which ...

Tom Starzl and his team in Pittsburgh submitted a case report of a baboon-to-human liver transplant to The Lancet, I was a junior editor whose task it was to prepare his paper for publication.

Overdiagnosis occurs when patients are diagnosed with a disease that would otherwise never have affected the quality or duration of their lives. This often happens unintentionally through well-meaning ...

Sudan is experiencing an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis after the outbreak of war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April, 2023. Although ...