At the beginning of this decade, tremors rumbling within the inherited conventions of global health research erupted.

Machine digital eyes can glean far more information from a scan than human experts can readily detect or accurately decipher.

The Lancet published the findings from COMMEND, the largest clinical trial to date of a psychological intervention for people ...

WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ...

Although not formally defined as a neglected tropical disease, HIV-2 infection attracts remarkably little attention or ...

Sudan is facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since gaining independence in 1956. The history of conflicts in Sudan is long and heterogeneous, moving from foreign colonisation to internal ethnic ...

Infectious diseases physician and renowned antimicrobial trialist. Born in Fortrose, Scotland, on May 14, 1934, he died in Birmingham, UK, on April 9, 2024, aged 89 years.

Although several countries have adopted a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategy, many other countries ...

Approximately a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, which is the seedbed from which all forms of ...

The term long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, was coined in spring, 2020, by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 in response to unsatisfactory recognition of this ...

With two endorsed and prophylactic vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus (referred to hereafter as EBOV), the number of individuals vaccinated against EBOV worldwide is estimated to range between 500 000 ...

Population-wide screening of children for presymptomatic early-stage type 1 diabetes is gaining momentum. Studies have demonstrated feasibility and acceptance, and shown that the rate of progression ...