[World Report] Jeremy Farrar to leave WHO
The unexpected departure of the Assistant Director-General of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care has prompted concerns over leadership at WHO. Faith McLellan reports.
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The unexpected departure of the Assistant Director-General of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care has prompted concerns over leadership at WHO. Faith McLellan reports.
Create a free account or sign in to use AI summaries, listen to articles, download PDFs, and save to your library. <p>Cannabigerol (CBG), a non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid derived from Cannabis sati...
A doctor provides information on diabetes and lists helpful homeopathic remedies for associated symptoms.
89 attacks on health workers and facilities were documented between January, 2025, and April, 2026. Sharmila Devi reports.
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When Mangenda Kamara became pregnant as a teenager in Sierra Leone, her community and secondary school teachers made her feel “very discouraged”, she recalls. But her father, a teacher himself, always...
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How do we enable populations to thrive? In a world increasingly marked by polarisation, precarity, and the retreat of the USA from global public health leadership, public health is on the defensive. A...
While training in medicine I was still a literary lecturer and novelist and, on a break between medical school placements, was asked to do a lecture tour of bookshops and colleges with an older writer...
Pioneer of molecular epidemiology and long-serving Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the US National Cancer Institute. Born in Boston, MA, USA, on April 1, 1933, he died ...
Between August, 2025, and July, 2026, US state legislatures considered more than 400 vaccine-related bills, of which 209 sought to weaken vaccination rules, systems, or public confidence; only nine we...
Dementia prevention is a global health priority. The 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on dementia estimated that 14 modifiable risk factors account for up to 45% of dementia cases, with 3% of thes...
We thank Nick C Fox and colleagues for their response1 to our study on the use of amyloid β-targeting monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer's disease.2 All amyloid β-targeting monoclonal antibodies, alt...
The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care1 provided unprecedented scientific clarity and public health impetus by identifying 14 modifiable risk factors and estimating ...
We would like to thank Agustin Ibanez and Hernando Santamaria-Garcia for their positive comments and agree with them that it is important to build on the 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention,...
The NIVOPOST-OP trial has been interpreted by some as implying a systemic disease-modifying benefit of postoperative immune checkpoint inhibition in high-risk resected squamous cell carcinoma.1 Howeve...
We thank Gang Lv and colleagues and Pablo Jiménez-Labaig and Kevin J Harrington for their insightful comments regarding the NIVOPOSTOP trial.1 Both letters rightfully highlight the discrepancy between...
Pre-eclampsia is a multisystem disorder that arises in at least 2–4% of pregnancies and is characterised by hypertension and new-onset organ dysfunction. The pathophysiology of pre-eclampsia is divers...
Gender-affirming medical treatment for adolescents (defined as the start of puberty to age 18 years) has become an increasingly contested area of medicine in recent years. 13 reviews have been conduct...
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