As injuries and deaths from motorcycle collisions soar, public health experts in Brazil are looking for solutions. Lise Alves ...

Emerging evidence indicates that sustainable lifestyle changes—such as increasing physical activity, adopting healthy dietary ...

Bai Hsu for their courage in retracting their Correspondence upon discovering inaccuracies in the presentation of information and references concerning Taiwan's health-care system.1 Nevertheless, ...

A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is a cornerstone in global health research and the ...

This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination and concentration camps. After World War 2 ended in ...

Talha Burki speaks with Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi about their Nobel-winning discoveries in peripheral ...

After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the ...

Disability goes beyond health care, yet the two are fundamentally interwoven: many people with disability have at least some ...

For Somali-American paediatrician Anisa Ibrahim, childhood was fraught with uncertainty. By the time she was 5 years old, civil war had broken out in Somalia and when the conflict escalated, her ...

Afghanistan today faces a maternal health crisis that is as much political as it is medical. When girls are banned from studying beyond grade 6, nursing and midwifery schools are shuttered, and female ...

Legal definitions of sexual violence vary globally. In some legislations, rape constitutes a form of aggravated sexual assault, whereas others differentiate between rape, assault by penetration, and ...