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

The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, jointly issued by the US Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture, introduce a revised dietary pyramid that prioritises animal-based ...

On Jan 7, 2026, the US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) published the 10th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).1 The new DGA are consequential, ...

The original Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale was developed by the British MRC in the 1950s, and it was first formally published in 1961 in a study on chronic bronchitis.1 It was designed ...

Despite decades of experience, advanced health systems, and deep medical knowledge, the WHO European region is still at risk from the global epidemic of tuberculosis. There are at least three pressing ...

Aimee Donnellan has been a correspondent for Reuters since 2017. Her patch includes the pharmaceutical industry. Off the ...

The mass starvation in Gaza has called into question how famine is defined and measured. On Aug 22, 2025, the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered ...

Amy Shelton is a UK visual artist and the founder of Honeyscribe, an arts organisation which, she says, “explores how art can be a powerful tool to help reconnect people to the natural world”.

More than 30 years after the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study showed that statins save lives, their full public health potential remains unrealised. Statins are underused worldwide, and as a ...

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. Less than half the people with high blood pressure are aware of their diagnosis, and only ...