During the 16th and 18th centuries, scurvy, a disease caused by insufficient vitamin C intake, affected millions of sailors due to scarcity of fruits and vegetables during long voyages. Three ...

The UN has declared November 24 as World Conjoined Twins Day,1 an initiative led by Saudi Arabia to raise global awareness about the medical and societal challenges faced by conjoined twins and their ...

I have had Parkinson's [disease] for about 10 years now”, says Ian Temple, an ambassador for and dancer with Dance for ...

The centrality of the first 1000 days—from conception to 2 years of age—for early childhood development is recognised in ...

According to various guidelines and consensus papers, postoperative radioiodine therapy can be prescribed to patients with ...

The long-awaited therapeutic pipeline for Crohn's disease is now coming to fruition, with the emergence of novel drug classes offering hope for our patients. Yet despite increasing options, treatment ...

The 2024 Access to Medicine Index shows that some manufacturers are increasingly prioritising LMICs, but broader interest in equitable access is waning. Udani Samarasekera reports.

In a global landscape defined by polycrisis, children are being failed. To address this failure, we ask an ambitious yet ...

In September, 2024, WHO announced a partnership between its Fides network of health influencers and the social media platform TikTok to promote science-based health information and encourage positive ...

The story of child and adolescent health over the past 25 years is one of clear but sometimes stalled progress, followed by the catastrophically negative impact of COVID-19, from which many children's ...

Neurodiversity is a concept that embraces the different ways that the human brain processes information, functions, and presents behaviourally.1 Instead of thinking in terms of a medical disability ...

On Oct 28, 2024, the Israeli Knesset passed a bill banning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from operating in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.1 ...