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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fact that our homes are inextricably linked to our health is not new. “One might have imagined that science and common ...

Amblyopia, a neural disorder induced by atypical visual experiences during the crucial period of visual development, affects 2–5% of the global population.1 Despite its prevalence, an optimal ...

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 ...

A 42-year-old man with a history of an intermittent disorder of speech fluency beginning around the age of 4 years without ...

Home to about 8·2% of the global population, Latin America experienced a disproportionate burden of COVID-19. The region ...

Sjögren's disease is a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous disease to which precision medicine, on the basis of clinical and biological heterogeneity, has been not always applicable. In ...

Writer Camilla Whitehill's ambitions for her new mental-health-themed sitcom Big Mood are straightforward: “I just want people to think it's funny and I want them to like the characters.” With this ...

Countries need to take stronger measures to identify and prosecute perpetrators behind attacks on health-care and aid settings. John Zarocostas reports.