One of the earliest proponents of evidence-based medicine, Professor David Sackett, wrote, “Good doctors use both individual ...

The power of touch is so meaningful. When children are removed from touching their parents, seeing their parents, hearing ...

Patricia Young is Director of the Moving Minds Alliance, a global network of diverse organisations advocating for the scaling ...

Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

Brain surgery, like rocket science, has become a byword in popular culture for an intellectually challenging and risky ...

Emil Kraepelin formulated the initial nosology of Alzheimer's disease in the first decade of the 20th century. Nowadays, clinical and pathological presentations (including those associated with ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that remains incurable, despite decades of basic and clinical research. Key stakeholders—including the US National ...

When asked about how her family background has influenced her career, Nanna Brix Finnerup, Professor at the Department of ...

Physician wellbeing is becoming a priority for health-care systems, because it has a direct impact on their quality and accessibility, physicians’ own health and job satisfaction, and overall ...

Any lingering doubts over the feasibility of rolling out population-based cancer registries in low-income and middle-income countries ought to have been dispelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

The fact that mental health was an overlooked and under-represented area of medicine was exactly what drew Dr Fahmy Hanna to it. While speaking to The Lancet Psychiatry, he said “I have a deep ...