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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.

The US Federal Government is gridlocked. When the 2025 fiscal year ended, the Senate and House of Representatives had not ...

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.

For those working in global health, and especially on immunisation, it is difficult not to feel despair at the headwinds in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...