Antipsychotic medicines are a key part of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Although they provide therapeutic ...

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

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

The addition of hormone therapy to radiotherapy improves overall survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer, over ...

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 ...

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.

Mark Butler's involvement in health long predates his time in Australia's Parliament; he was a lawyer for and later led United Voice, an Australian health workers' union. He also worked in personal ...

The weaponisation of restricting digital connectivity has been increasingly normalised. In 2024, governments imposed 296 internet shutdowns across 54 countries, with at least 72 directly linked to ...

It was a busy casualty night in a paediatric ward of the largest tertiary care hospital in southern Sri Lanka. I was the ...

Human pluripotent stem-cells (HPSCs)—including human embryonic stem-cells and human induced pluripotent stem-cells—are reshaping the landscape of regenerative medicine.1,2 In Parkinson's disease, ...

Cut off from Venezuelan oil, Cuba is facing increasing pressure including on its ailing health system. Joe Parkin Daniels ...

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, ...