The mass starvation in Gaza has called into question how famine is defined and measured. On Aug 22, 2025, the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. Less than half the people with high blood pressure are aware of their diagnosis, and only ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Aimee Donnellan has been a correspondent for Reuters since 2017. Her patch includes the pharmaceutical industry. Off the Scales is her first book. In brisk and breezy terms, it recounts the history ...

Amy Shelton is a UK visual artist and the founder of Honeyscribe, an arts organisation which, she says, “explores how art can be a powerful tool to help reconnect people to the natural world”.

More than 30 years after the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study showed that statins save lives, their full public health potential remains unrealised. Statins are underused worldwide, and as a ...

The phone woke me at 0342h. My mother and younger sister had left a WhatsApp message to call them. Half-asleep, I called back only catching the words “grandma” and “hip fracture”. My world stopped. A ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Adult obesity is a risk factor for infection-related hospitalisations and mortality across diverse pathogen types, populations, and baseline clinical profiles, with evidence suggesting that ...

Despite the availability of effective antihypertensive therapies, global blood pressure control rates remain unacceptably low. Contributing factors, such as low treatment adherence, therapeutic ...

Afghanistan is facing a critical shortage of life-saving blood clotting factors, leaving hundreds of haemophilia patients at the risk of uncontrolled internal bleeding, permanent disability, and ...