The US political intervention into Venezuela has been framed as an operation targeting human trafficking networks. A 2025 report1 from the US Department of State makes clear that “Venezuela does not ...
Human pluripotent stem-cells (HPSCs)—including human embryonic stem-cells and human induced pluripotent stem-cells—are reshaping the landscape of regenerative medicine.1,2 In Parkinson's disease, ...
In 2021, an estimated 6·3 million people were trafficked for sexual exploitation.1 Survivors experience profound sexual and reproductive health consequences, including sexual dysfunction, ...
Antipsychotic medicines are a key part of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Although they provide therapeutic ...
In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan ...
There is a wide field of unofficial candidates. Whoever succeeds will take the helm of an agency in turmoil. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.
US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...
Malaysia has a new national plan to tackle cancer, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory conditions in a single approach. Jacqui Thornton reports.
Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...
Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, ...
The addition of hormone therapy to radiotherapy improves overall survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer, over radiotherapy alone.1 Mechanisms proposed to explain this effect include ...