Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has become the leading cause of liver disease worldwide, affecting one in three people.1,2 The inflammatory form of MASLD, namely ...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed HIV-1 infection into a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. For more than two decades, the standard regimen has been a ...

Recent estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 have drawn attention to Lebanon's apparent ranking as the country with the largest increase in cancer ...

We read with interest the Article by Marc P Bonaca and colleagues, which showed that the GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide improves walking distance by 13% in patients with peripheral artery disease ...

On Dec 19, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major milestone by qualifying total hip bone mineral density (BMD), assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, as a surrogate ...

The US military strikes on Venezuela on Jan 3, 2026 and seizure of the country's President Nicolás Maduro represent a profound shock to a health system already in collapse. With US President Donald ...

Following the frequent suspicions regarding the safety of cholesterol-lowering drugs in the pre-statin era,1 statins have been a recurrent object of various concerns and alarming news. For example, ...

Each Olympic cycle, athletes and support staff chase the latest cutting-edge knowledge in pursuit of Gold. In the Winter ...

Neuroprotection in ischaemic stroke commonly means a treatment that results in the preservation of brain tissue in the setting of either focal or global ischaemia. The nominal focus on neuronal tissue ...

Abraham Verghese is heir to a long tradition of doctors who write, writers who also practised medicine. Some of the best ...

Pandemic preparedness in fragile and conflict-affected states is shaped less by technical deficits than by enduring political, institutional, and security constraints. Protracted conflict, chronic ...

Hospitals are protected spaces under international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, and are further safeguarded by WHO standards, which prohibit military or security force ...