Multiple research projects have shown people around the world are not getting enough sleep. According to a recent study of half a million people, we should be getting 7 hours of sleep eac...
The highest ever number of cholera outbreaks have been recorded worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease threatens the health of millions and risks overwhe...
Two new omicron subvariants, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, are quickly gaining traction in the US, collectively accounting for 27% of infections as of October 29. Both are descendants of BA.5, the omi...
More than a century ago, the delivery of healthcare was based on the simplistic premise of demand and supply depending on a person’s health. People sought care when they fell ill.
Every year, more than 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately, for most of those people, the disease is diagnosed too late to be cured. Less than 10% o...
The considerable physical health benefits of COVID vaccines, in particular, the significantly reduced risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death from the virus, are well known.
Rapid climate change has a direct impact on human health. These damaging effects arise from multiple causes, such as increased allergens, changes in the ecology of disease vectors and con...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the communities worldwide experienced sharp increases in stress, anxiety, depression and suicidality. Systemic shortcomings in access to mental health servic...
Close to forty years into the AIDS pandemic, people infected with HIV can now live much longer due to Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs, a positive development that has converted AIDS i...
Los países de renta baja y media (PRMB) pueden y deben desempeñar un papel destacado a la hora de dictar el futuro de las tecnologías sanitarias más avanzadas del mundo, según el informe ...
Intensive treatment includes mechanical ventilation, intubation, feeding tube initiation, and new dialysis.
Most of us don’t think about cancer when we’re in our 20s and 30s. But recent research has shown that people born after 1990 are more likely to develop cancer before the age of 50 than an...
At least one in eight of us is affected by mental health issues.
Reduce emotional exhaustion using three powerful approaches.
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought the coronavirus was everywhere—stuck to our cellphone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our ...
