Nearly 300 000 women die every year due to pregnancy or childbirth. Substantial inroads in reducing maternal mortality were made during the early part of the 21st century, but progress has stalled ...

As historians we rarely predict the future since we are trained to look at the past, draw lessons from it, and identify ...

Progress in reducing neonatal and under-5 mortality have stalled as experts call for greater investment in services. Udani Samarasekera reports.

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain.

Suzanne O’Sullivan, author and consultant in neurology and clinical neurophysiology at the National Hospital for Neurology ...

Belarusian political prisoners report worsening medical care, particularly since a crackdown on political dissent. Ed Holt reports.

On World AIDS Day 2024, UNAIDS proposed use of a human rights-based approach to end the HIV pandemic by 2030.1 Their approach is centred on achieving equity in access to HIV prevention and treatment, ...

China's persistent decline in fertility rates and the accompanying demographic shift towards an ageing population have brought challenges to the country's health-care system, particularly in the realm ...

The panel will seek to understand the causes of suicide among students and formulate recommendations for prevention. Dinesh C Sharma reports.

We thank Yutaka Shimazu for his constructive comments on our HD21 trial.1 In the PET-2 positive cohort, 165 (69%) of 240 patients treated with brentuximab vedotin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, ...

Peter Borchmann and colleagues1 showed the efficacy and safety of the brentuximab vedotin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine, and dexamethasone (BrECADD) regimen compared with ...

Reducing the maternal mortality rate due to postpartum haemorrhage depends on the ability of health-care teams to identify pregnant women at higher risk of bleeding, to timely and accurately detect ...