Integrating tobacco-cessation services into HIV and tuberculosis care can enhance treatment outcomes and reduce mortality. Health systems should implement comprehensive tobacco-cessation strategies, ...

Dr Ray O’Connor continues his look at recent clinical articles on vaccines, including if the WHO should consider recommending ...

Zein became aware of alcohol’s impact on COPD a few years ago. In a paper published in 2021, Zein and colleagues found that ...

We need to support all tobacco and nicotine users and help them quit, become tobacco-free and nicotine-free – and protect ...

Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid ...

There are many ways to make history as a composer, but the eminent Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas’s way is easily the ...

In many cases, thoroughly washing or cooking your food is enough to prevent infection from listeria.

The lives and respiratory health of Palestinians are at risk. In the Gaza Strip, the average life expectancy decreased by 34·9 years1 and over 59 587 Palestinians (including 17 921 children) were ...

While the universal immunisation programme has covered the vaccination of children over the last several years, the burden of ...

Wealthier consumptive patients had long been directed to salubrious locations such as seaside resorts or spa towns to escape ...

From the first reported cases of HIV in 1981 to the latest breakthroughs in long-acting prevention, this Spotlight timeline traces key moments in the global and South African response to the virus. It ...

The world’s most influential nations gathered in South Africa to work around Washington’s disruptive foreign policy Saturday, ...