Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

Any lingering doubts over the feasibility of rolling out population-based cancer registries in low-income and middle-income countries ought to have been dispelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within ...

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

In this Personal View, we critically evaluate the limitations and underlying challenges of existing research into the negative mental health consequences of internet-mediated technologies on young ...

Africa reached a pivotal milestone in its decades-long fight against malaria, a disease that has caused 94% of global cases and 95% of related deaths in Africa.1 Although global malaria mortality has ...

Cough is a crucial protective reflex that helps protect the lungs and airways. However, when cough becomes chronic and ...

One of the earliest proponents of evidence-based medicine, Professor David Sackett, wrote, “Good doctors use both individual ...

The power of touch is so meaningful. When children are removed from touching their parents, seeing their parents, hearing ...

Patricia Young is Director of the Moving Minds Alliance, a global network of diverse organisations advocating for the scaling ...

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a disease of the upper airway presenting with exophytic wart-like lesions. These lesions are considered benign with less than a 1–5% chance of malignant ...