Nearly 4 million patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma die each year, mostly from severe acute exacerbations.1 For the past 60 years, systemic corticosteroids have been ...

We are writing to urgently highlight the unprecedented flooding that has devastated eastern Spain, particularly in the Valencia region, beginning on Oct 29, 2024. As of Nov 25, this catastrophic event ...

On Oct 29, WHO published its annual Global Tuberculosis Report, with tuberculosis resuming its position as the top infectious ...

IDWeek 2024 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 16–19 October. Phoebe Hall reports.

A world-renowned paediatric infectious disease specialist and advocate for health equity died on Sept 23, 2024.

As of October 2024, WHO has validated 21 countries as having achieved trachoma elimination. Timothy Jesudason reports on the ...

Justyna Kowalska's upbringing behind the iron wall in then-communist Poland was not as bleak as people might imagine: she spent more time out playing than in front of the dull, black and white TV. But ...

eHarvard T H Chan, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA ...