Coronary artery disease frequently accompanies severe aortic stenosis and is identified in up to half of patients referred for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).1 Yet the optimal ...

Aspirin is considered the cornerstone of secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. However, the evidence supporting aspirin was largely generated before the advent of modern pharmacological and ...

The disparity in global childhood cancer survival is well known: survival probabilities exceed 80% in high-income countries, whereas they remain around 30% in low-income countries.1–3 But there are ...

The principle that medicines should not reach patients without strong safety guardrails forms the bedrock of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA shapes decisions about which medicines ...

The devastation caused by COVID-19 brought pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR) to the forefront of the global political agenda. But in many quarters, global attention has waned amid ...

The global epidemiology and prognosis of meningitis have been transformed by the introduction of conjugate vaccines, and by advances in antimicrobial therapy, critical care, and adjunctive treatments ...

My mom and I left Iran when I was 5 years old, just the two of us…there had been the revolution in 1979, so it was a combination of factors, wanting to get her PhD, but also wanting to get away from ...

Despite its enormous global burden, osteoarthritis has no licensed disease-modifying treatments, and available analgesics have moderate efficacy and substantial side-effects.1 The success of ...

The African Union, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has operationalised strategies on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), injuries, and mental health to reverse the ...

For the first time in the history of both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the International Space Station, a crew medical concern prompted an unprecedented evacuation, ...

In 2019, revelations that American financier Jeffrey Epstein had orchestrated a powerful international network for human trafficking and sexual exploitation shocked the conscience of global society.

Russell Winwood's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis in 2011 was a brutal wake-up call. His second in less than a decade. The Brisbane native, who came to be known as the “COPD ...