Early clinical trials established the safety and feasibility of closed-loop insulin delivery, but the 2019 iDCL trial1 marked the first large, outpatient, randomised, controlled trial to show a ...

Despite worsening ozone air pollution in much of the country, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to weaken ...

The weaponisation of restricting digital connectivity has been increasingly normalised. In 2024, governments imposed 296 internet shutdowns across 54 countries, with at least 72 directly linked to ...

A growing body of evidence indicates that suicide and suicidal behaviours, including suicide attempts, self-harm, and planning or preparatory behaviours for suicide, among medical students are ...

This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm ...

Cut off from Venezuelan oil, Cuba is facing increasing pressure including on its ailing health system. Joe Parkin Daniels ...

Proposals for huge cuts to NIH and CDC budgets have been rejected, to the relief of scientists. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

It was a busy casualty night in a paediatric ward of the largest tertiary care hospital in southern Sri Lanka. I was the ...

The goals of breast cancer screening are to detect breast cancers as early as possible to reduce both mortality and the ...

A staggering 840 million women and adolescent girls worldwide have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or both by an intimate partner or sexual violence by a non-partner at least once in ...

Workers in Ukraine's embattled health-care system are reporting a mixture of resilience, hope, despondency, and anger amid mounting challenges as Russia's full-scale invasion of their country ...