India is once again at the centre of heated discussions due to its toxic air and the disproportionately high mortality and disease burden this is causing. In November, the air in Delhi, India's ...

Journalist Linda Villarosa's writing has scrutinised pervasive racial health inequities in the USA, challenging health professionals and wider society to recognise the adverse impacts of racism on ...

The incidence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales infections has increased substantially in recent years, now accounting for approximately 15% of isolates causing infections.1 ...

Dengue is an acute mosquito-borne illness that is caused by four different dengue viruses (serotypes 1–4). More than half the ...

The exposure of residents to lead in drinking water caused a national outcry, prompting requirements to update infrastructure ...

Civil society has been limited by President Alexander Lukashenko, leaving few organisations to provide health care for migrants at the Belarus–EU border. Ed Holt reports.

A grant awarded to the DNDi by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable new drug trials for sleeping sickness and river blindness. Sanjeet Bagcchi reports.

This scoping review of randomised controlled trials on artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical practice reveals an expanding ...

Born in Madrid, Spain, shortly after the end of the Francoist dictatorship, Nuria Izquierdo-Useros was raised in an environment that actively promoted critical thinking. “My grandmother and mother ...

A particular highlight of Colin Elliott's book Pox Romana: the plague that shook the Roman world is his visceral account of ancient Rome itself. Anyone hoping for the Colosseum, classical columns, and ...

A surge in leptospirosis cases this year prompts heightened surveillance measures on Réunion island. Alix Boisson-Walsh reports.

British pathologist, virologist, and co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus, passed away on Feb 6, 2024, aged 102 years.