Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

Any lingering doubts over the feasibility of rolling out population-based cancer registries in low-income and middle-income countries ought to have been dispelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

One of the earliest proponents of evidence-based medicine, Professor David Sackett, wrote, “Good doctors use both individual ...

The power of touch is so meaningful. When children are removed from touching their parents, seeing their parents, hearing ...

Patricia Young is Director of the Moving Minds Alliance, a global network of diverse organisations advocating for the scaling ...

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

Africa reached a pivotal milestone in its decades-long fight against malaria, a disease that has caused 94% of global cases and 95% of related deaths in Africa.1 Although global malaria mortality has ...

Brain surgery, like rocket science, has become a byword in popular culture for an intellectually challenging and risky ...

Cough is a crucial protective reflex that helps protect the lungs and airways. However, when cough becomes chronic and ...

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a disease of the upper airway presenting with exophytic wart-like lesions. These lesions are considered benign with less than a 1–5% chance of malignant ...