The poverty alleviation relocation programme (2016–2020) was a crucial initiative in China's fight against poverty, which was led and subsidised by the government with voluntary participation from the ...

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”; whether it is the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr or others who have ...

Sparked by a flurry of executive orders in the first week of taking power, and evolving at dizzying pace, the new US administration has taken a wrecking ball to health-related services and research ...

In January, 2025, several executive orders were issued limiting federal funding for gender-affirming health care, declaring that there are only two biological sexes, and halting diversity programmes.1 ...

The recently re-elected President of the USA's decision to withdraw the USA from WHO is highly regrettable on multiple levels, and hopefully will be quickly reconsidered.1,2 But if it holds, it ...

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

Although lung cancer has been the leading cause of lung-cancer death globally for decades, there are important temporal and geographical differences in lung-cancer incidence, mortality, and other ...

Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume or forced vital capacity was related to mortality. 185 years later, spirometry is ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical care, leading to many millions of ...