Zika virus was first isolated from a sentinel Rhesus macaque in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947. 1 Across urban environments in tropical and subtropical zones today, Zika virus ...

Oct 5, 2026, marks the 18th annual World Meningitis Day. Progress since the inaugural event in 2009 has been striking. That year, an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis killed more than 5000 people ...

Few who remember the idealistic vision of the 1990s World Wide Web could have anticipated the extent to which the internet ...

The psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott proposed that a child discovers his or her own self through creative play. This certainly seems to be the case for Barbara Prainsack, Professor for ...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access ...

In this Clinical Rounds, we present a case of neuroborreliosis in a man aged 59 years who initially complained of headache, ...

People with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower limbs are at very high risk of cardiovascular events and therefore the cornerstone of their management is medical therapy and behaviour ...

Activists hold a day of action after mounting concerns over the contract between the NHS and the tech company. Talha Burki reports.

Does antibiotic restriction prevent resistance?” Their 1996 review is often cited as being the first to apply “stewardship” ...

Volatile and prohibitive immigration rules are raising concerns about staffing health and social care across the USA. Roxanne Nelson reports.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is among the most devastating musculoskeletal disorders. FOP is caused by ...

Global conflicts have made it essential for all countries to prepare their health-care facilities for the possibility of war. During a session at the 2026 European Respiratory Society (ERS) ...