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China experienced its largest-ever chikungunya outbreak in Guangdong during the summer of 2025, with 16,452 locally transmitted laboratory-confirmed cases reported as of Sept 27, 2025. Before this ...

From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined. Sharmila Devi reports.

In the MIROCALS trial, Gilbert Bensimon and colleagues1 showed that low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) added to riluzole did not significantly reduce mortality in an unadjusted analysis of patients with ...

The World Report1 by Dinesh C Sharma on the corruption scandal in Indian medical education brings to attention a serious episode involving regulatory malpractice that is currently under investigation ...

As the 11th conference of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control approaches, experts debate how to respond to an expanding industry. Faith McLellan reports.

On Sept 28, 2025, the UN Security Council snapback under Resolution 2231 reinstated multilateral sanctions on Iran related to insufficient compliance in international oversight of its nuclear ...

Over the last one and a half decades we have seen malaria incidence, morbidity, and mortality decreasing. Ethiopia was ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used as protection against disease, ranging ...

Generations of medical students and trainee doctors in Greece have benefited from free education in public institutions, from textbooks to clinical training and doctoral degrees. Tuition fees have ...

We thank Yutaka Shimazu for his insightful comments. We agree that our positive findings1–4 highlight the urgent need for further work on biomarkers of neuronal damage and immune mechanisms in ...

Recently published competition ratios for specialty training expose the unfolding unemployment crisis in the medical industry. There were 33 108 applicants for only 9479 training posts in the first ...