There are approximately 500 000 new cases of rifampicin-resistant or multidrug-resistant (RR/MDR) tuberculosis every year. In 2022, WHO recommended the all-oral bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid ...

Meru Sheel probably grew up in one of the most pro-women homes in New Delhi, India, with both her parents involved in women's advocacy and her father working in girls’ and women's education. “We would ...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 shed a light on, and exacerbated, many health inequalities that were in some ways obscured from the gaze of the global population. The disproportionate ...

Not many people are better equipped to dissect the food system than Stuart Gillespie. He has spent the past four decades ...

Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues are a new class of compounds making their way into the European and US vaping markets, raising urgent questions about public health, regulation, and scientific research.1 ...

Humans are programmed to follow intellectual fashions. In the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the concept that inflammation is the core problem is dominant, whereas other key ...

The Review by Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer and colleagues1 on sepsis in patients who are immunocompromised is comprehensive and addresses a key and complex population. However, we would like to express ...

Language in reproductive health care, unlike elsewhere, has always defaulted to using the words woman and women due to the historic invisibility of pregnant transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse ...

Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of ...

The Working Group assessed more than 800 epidemiological studies that investigated the association of cancer with consumption of red meat or processed meat in many countries, from several continents, ...

Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, resulting in more than 1·25 million deaths in 2023 alone.1 During the past decade, efforts to end tuberculosis have achieved important ...