The Asia–Pacific region has a high global burden of cardiovascular disease.1 The region, home to more than 60% of the world's population, spans the vast and diverse geographies from Oceania through ...

Diabetes is well known to be associated with an increased cardiovascular risk. Although much of the evidence has been ...

A rapidly evolving and uncertain situation has unfolded in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region following Israel's cross-border military strikes on Iran on June 13, 2025, and Iran's retaliatory ...

The week beginning Aug 4, 2025 was the most dangerous and tragic week of Robert F Kennedy Jr's tenure yet: a fatal CDC ...

A woman aged 62 years presents with shortness of breath. Her chest x-ray is interpreted as normal by an artificial intelligence (AI) triage system. The overworked resident, reassured by the system's ...

I study, chemoradiotherapy with image-guided adaptive brachytherapy (IGABT) reached unmatched outcomes and has since become the standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer.1,2 In 2023, ...

Evidence tells us that a treatable traits intervention will improve quality of life for people with chronic obstructive ...

In Brian Burns and colleagues' Article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine,1 a prospective, multi-centre, open-label, randomised, superiority trial was conducted across Sydney, NSW, Australia ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues are a new class of compounds making their way into the European and US vaping markets, raising urgent questions about public health, regulation, and scientific research.1 ...

Not many people are better equipped to dissect the food system than Stuart Gillespie. He has spent the past four decades ...

Law enforcement agencies are still investigating a gunman's August 8 attack on the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease ...

As an incoming resident doctor in the UK National Health Service, I am confronted by strike action due to the systemic under-investment in medical trainees, and the lived reality of entering clinical ...