People with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower limbs are at very high risk of cardiovascular events and therefore the cornerstone of their management is medical therapy and behaviour ...

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the primary driver of premature death in global populations in recent decades.

In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed health systems worldwide, Zambia designated the Chongwe district hospital as a ...

China bears the world's largest absolute burden of chronic liver disease, which was incompletely characterised until the LiverHealth project, with data being either retrospective, from selected ...

A single blood test that can identify most cancers remains the aspirational goal of cancer screening. The US biotechnology company Grail has been closest to developing a viable multicancer detection ...

Health and peace are under severe strain amid multiple, interconnected global crises. Health has long served as a bridge between adversaries; in a fragmenting world, it too has become a casualty of ...

The tragic death, disability, and chaos wrought by the COVID-19 are fading from collective memory. The pandemic created a global health crisis that led to more than 7 million reported deaths, an ...

Nepal's government health system operates on local as well as provincial and federal government levels, with local facilities focusing on basic health services, while provincial and federal hospitals ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) marks a shift from information retrieval to interpretive synthesis, operating at a ...

The WHO End TB Strategy targets a 90% reduction in global incidence by 2035, with programmatic scale-up of tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) in high-burden countries a key priority;1 yet there ...

State-level policy environments, including fiscal and preventive health measures, might contribute to shaping respiratory health outcomes beyond individual risk factors. Integrating tobacco control ...

Stage at diagnosis remains the strongest determinant of cancer survival, yet only 13% of cancers are detected through guideline-based screening, and 20–50% first present in an emergency department.