Have you ever heard of Aarskog Syndrome? How about Abetalipoproteinemia? Probably not. As with all rare diseases, they occur in less than 0.05% of the global population.
"We need to keep educating people and dispel vaccine hesitancy," Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), tells the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerla...
Africa’s push towards public health autonomy is gaining momentum. With the creation of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African Medicines Agency and the propos...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global rollout of vaccines revealed the good, the bad and the ugly of the global community’s ability to come together and respond. The good – the deli...
In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that climate change has the potential to severely impact everyone’s health around the world. One of the greatest challenges of our ...
Climate change is expected to become the single biggest global crisis of this century, and a growing body of evidence suggests that, in addition to the toll it is already taking on the li...
On the same day the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting began in Davos on 21 January, 2020, the World Health Organization published its first situation report on Novel Coronavirus (2019...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health equity as "when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being." As 30% of the global population still cannot access...
Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – ...
The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has now been around for more than a year. Before omicron became dominant, there had been a quick succession of named var...
The human impact of the war in Ukraine has been vast. The UN declared it the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with 13 million people being forced to seek sanctuary elsewhere – a...
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition arising from the body’s overreactive response against an infection, leading it to injure its own tissues and organs. The first known reference to “s...
In 2020, we knew very little about the novel virus that was to become known as COVID-19. Now, as we enter 2023, a search of Google Scholar produces around five million results containing ...
A vast combination of microorganisms live in our gut, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Collectively, we refer to this as the the microbiome.
Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID follo...
