Awareness Week, Nov 18–24, 2024, is “Educate. Advocate. Act now.” Despite the lack of confirmed diagnosis, some patients are being administered with antibiotics as a precautionary measure. The ...

For the subgroup of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who require biological DMARDs, sustained DMARD-free remission does not ...

A huge criminal investigation is under way following accusations that fraud and substandard care have resulted in the deaths of several babies. Kaya Genc reports from Istanbul.

The outbreak of an undiagnosed disease in DR Congo, reported by WHO on Dec 8, 2024,1 is a pressing global health concern that demands swift and coordinated action. As of Dec 5, 406 cases and 31 deaths ...

Spatial repellents have been used as commercial household bite prevention products since the early 1900s, but significant ...

The medical knowledge of Renaissance artists, honed through the study of classical texts and direct anatomical exploration ...

Most people with functioning ovaries will eventually go through menopause. However, the research priorities for those with lived experience of menopause and their health-care providers is not known.1 ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

Historically, sickle cell anaemia has been widely neglected within its global epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa. More than ...

The hospital corridor, usually so busy with the incessant hum of life and death, now lay in a brief silence, as though the ...

In November, 2024, the UK Parliament voted to support the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.1 The bill would allow ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects around 30% of the global population. Studies suggest ...