Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

Any lingering doubts over the feasibility of rolling out population-based cancer registries in low-income and middle-income ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

Africa reached a pivotal milestone in its decades-long fight against malaria, a disease that has caused 94% of global cases and 95% of related deaths in Africa.1 Although global malaria mortality has ...

Cough is a crucial protective reflex that helps protect the lungs and airways. However, when cough becomes chronic and ...

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a disease of the upper airway presenting with exophytic wart-like lesions. These lesions are considered benign with less than a 1–5% chance of malignant ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

Asthma represents a substantial health burden in childhood globally, with minoritised populations being disproportionately impacted.1 Recent literature has increasingly linked social determinants of ...

The theme of the 2024 Wakley-Wu Lien Teh Prize essay contest was women and health.1 We are delighted and grateful to have ...

The power of touch is so meaningful. When children are removed from touching their parents, seeing their parents, hearing ...