In 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the science-rooted Endangerment Finding, stating that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future ...

Influential health policy expert who focused on women's health. Born on Nov 5, 1958, in Jacksonville, FL, USA, she died of ...

Countries are cutting funding and focusing more on regional efforts to deter migration rather than humanitarian relief.

As an autistic adult, even the word meltdown is humiliating. A shameful part of my past, no longer relevant to a senior doctor, or so I would like to think. And yet the reality is different. Some 2 ...

Although there is wide variation in the cause, location, and characteristics of chronic wounds, collectively, chronic wounds ...

Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in ...

PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million ...

Recent budget cuts to organisations central to US and international health—for example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease ...

It's done. You’ve had it.” My partner is grinning widely. I open my eyes but have no clue where I am. He tells me I had a ...

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health1 assesses global progress ...

In December, 2021, all 194 Member States of WHO decided to establish the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement, or other international instrument on ...

Gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, remains a major public health threat ...