Social prescribing is an approach in which trusted individuals in clinical and community settings identify patients’ health-related social needs and refer them to community-based activities and ...

While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.

Malaysia has a new national plan to tackle cancer, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory conditions in a single approach. Jacqui Thornton reports.

There is a wide field of unofficial candidates. Whoever succeeds will take the helm of an agency in turmoil. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...

Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, ...

In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health ...

The addition of hormone therapy to radiotherapy improves overall survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer, over radiotherapy alone.1 Mechanisms proposed to explain this effect include ...

When staff at my hospital asked me repeatedly, “Are you ready to join the on-call schedule?”, I felt both discouraged and inadequate. I understood they hoped to lower the on-call demands facing my ...

Physician who campaigned for equitable access to insulin and trained a new generation of global health clinicians. Born on June 25, 1943, in north London, UK, he died there after a short illness on ...

We have many challenges but at the same time we have a lot of strength”, says Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...