The UN has declared November 24 as World Conjoined Twins Day,1 an initiative led by Saudi Arabia to raise global awareness about the medical and societal challenges faced by conjoined twins and their ...

I have had Parkinson's [disease] for about 10 years now”, says Ian Temple, an ambassador for and dancer with Dance for ...

According to various guidelines and consensus papers, postoperative radioiodine therapy can be prescribed to patients with ...

The centrality of the first 1000 days—from conception to 2 years of age—for early childhood development is recognised in ...

The long-awaited therapeutic pipeline for Crohn's disease is now coming to fruition, with the emergence of novel drug classes offering hope for our patients. Yet despite increasing options, treatment ...

The 2024 Access to Medicine Index shows that some manufacturers are increasingly prioritising LMICs, but broader interest in equitable access is waning. Udani Samarasekera reports.

The story of child and adolescent health over the past 25 years is one of clear but sometimes stalled progress, followed by the catastrophically negative impact of COVID-19, from which many children's ...

Demand for mental health services exceeds available resources globally, and access to diagnosis and evidence-based treatment ...

In September, 2024, WHO announced a partnership between its Fides network of health influencers and the social media platform TikTok to promote science-based health information and encourage positive ...

In a global landscape defined by polycrisis, children are being failed. To address this failure, we ask an ambitious yet ...

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There is a growing global burden of liver disease with the current management for complications of liver cirrhosis being reactive as opposed to proactive, affecting outcomes. Management can often be ...