The trail of devastation left by the 10-day raid on Jenin's refugee camp on Aug 28 to Sept 6 is visible throughout the camp.

What are you doing this summer?” Although seemingly benign, this question now gave her angst. Finishing her sophomore year of ...

The Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), agreed last week in New York at the UN ...

Programme assigns unique names to medicinal substances, which are indispensable for their clear identification, safe prescription, and verification. These substances include allogeneic and autologous ...

In the lead-up to the US election, as the most recent round of anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) wars unfold, and as we prepare for the 250th anniversary of the USA, there is perhaps no ...

When I spoke to Emily Chan, she had just returned from a work trip to Timor-Leste as Chief Executive Officer of the GX Foundation, a Chinese non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Hong Kong that ...

Nigeria faces a severe shortage of skilled health workers.1 Nigeria has a density of only 1·83 skilled health workers per 1000 people, which falls far short of WHO's recommendation of 4·45 per 1000 ...

The Lancet's Editorial1 on ending plastic pollution poignantly captures the paradox of plastics: an indispensable component of modern life, with dire environmental consequences. India's recent plastic ...

The Lancet's Editorial1 on plastic pollution makes one small but weighty error: “sealed landfills” are referred to as one way to reduce human exposure to toxicants within the nearly half a billion ...

As laid out in the Ottawa Declaration of 1996, the Arctic Council is the high-level intergovernmental forum of the circumarctic region consisting of the eight Arctic States and Permanent Participants.

Loa loa infections affect up to 20 million people in Central and West Africa, but options for treatment and control are widely inadequate. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports.

Sickle cell disease was recognised as a global public health concern in 2008.1 The 63rd UN General Assembly adopted a ...