Countries such as the Solomon Islands and Fiji have pioneered mass drug administration for the disease. Sophie Cousins reports.

WHO has established a global target to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains one of the leading causes of cirrhosis, ...

Changes to the formulary for 14 000 prisoners have been criticised as inconsistent with best practice. Paul Webster reports.

We thank João Martins and Aneel Bhangu, Hermann Brenner and colleagues, and Uri Ladabaum and colleagues for their interesting comments on our report from the NordICC trial.1 We agree with Martins and ...

Patients increasingly use conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including for possible diagnoses, before seeing a ...

On May 15, 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda declared outbreaks of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus. On May 17, 2026, the Director-General of WHO determined that the ...

In August, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines ...

Anne-Marie Cockburn is convinced that punitive drug policies led to her daughter Martha's death in 2013. “As a society, we're treating drug use as a moral failing rather than the health issue it is.

Intermittent and uncontrolled loss of urine is common among children but requires medical attention when it persists beyond ...

Zika virus was first isolated from a sentinel Rhesus macaque in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947. 1 Across urban environments in tropical and subtropical zones today, Zika virus ...

Oct 5, 2026, marks the 18th annual World Meningitis Day. Progress since the inaugural event in 2009 has been striking. That year, an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis killed more than 5000 people ...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access ...