Nexhare and her five young children have lived next to Power Plant A in the Kosovan town of Obiliq for a decade. Poor air ...

Assessment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis is crucial for the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B. The presence of at least moderate liver fibrosis is an important indication for antiviral ...

Oxygen therapy is lifesaving for people with acute illness, life-sustaining for people undergoing anaesthesia and surgical care, and life-enhancing for people with chronic respiratory failure. The ...

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.

Family, a structured psychosocial intervention for people with dementia and their family carers, has been tested in a single-masked, phase 3, superiority, randomised controlled trial.1 The economic ...

The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood.

Sexual violence against children and adolescents is a public health emergency because every country in the world is dealing ...

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

Pain has been a part of my life throughout my childhood. At the age of 12 years, I was diagnosed with metastatic osteosarcoma ...