A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...

Emerging evidence indicates that sustainable lifestyle changes—such as increasing physical activity, adopting healthy dietary ...

Elevated plasma concentrations of hsCRP, LDL cholesterol, and lipoprotein(a), individually and in combination, are associated ...

Afghanistan today faces a maternal health crisis that is as much political as it is medical. When girls are banned from studying beyond grade 6, nursing and midwifery schools are shuttered, and female ...

Stéphanie Debette, a French neurologist and epidemiologist, had one condition before she would accept her appointment as ...

Treatment with anti-amyloid β antibodies is becoming standard therapy for early Alzheimer's disease, as lecanemab and donanemab received full approval in the USA, Japan, and other countries between ...

The burden of cognitive decline is growing, affecting many people worldwide and placing a substantial strain on health-care ...

October 5 marked the first World Postpartum Haemorrhage Day. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally, despite being largely preventable. Addressing it will be ...

Stroke risk evolves across the lifespan, with distinct sex-specific differences that remain underappreciated in both research ...

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is a cornerstone in global health research and the ...

Disability goes beyond health care, yet the two are fundamentally interwoven: many people with disability have at least some ...

For many years, treatment of asthma has focused on symptom management and control. As the understanding of disease processes has improved and treatments begin to target underlying mechanisms, there is ...