The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

Non-valvular atrial fibrillation accounts for 13–26% of acute ischaemic strokes.1 Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are highly effective in reducing the risk of ischaemic stroke with significantly ...

On May 10, 2025, over 160 000 residents of Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, were confined due to a toxic cloud of chlorine smoke coming from a blast at a building storing chemical products, including 70 ...

Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) is a systemic disease of poor mucocutaneous basement membrane integrity downstream of bi-allelic pathogenic variants in COL7A1. Cutaneous clinical ...

Considered a disease of middle-aged and older adults until the late 20th century, type 2 diabetes has risen markedly ...

aDivision of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK bDepartment of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK cDepartment of ...

Research discoveries leading to the development of new pharmaceutical compounds are notoriously difficult to translate into clinical practice.1 Drug repurposing provides a strategy to identify ...

We write to highlight an urgent, yet preventable public health tragedy unfolding in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In May, 2025, eight Indigenous Achuar children from Taisha—an Amazonic village from the ...

PMI investment in supporting procurement and distribution of malaria control commodities would directly translate into millions of malaria cases averted and approximately 100 000 lives saved across ...

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...

Hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems are transforming the management of type 1 diabetes. Young children with type 1 ...

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is an important condition,1 but its role as a reversible cardiovascular risk factor has been ...