Although several countries have adopted a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategy, many other countries ...

With two endorsed and prophylactic vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus (referred to hereafter as EBOV), the number of individuals vaccinated against EBOV worldwide is estimated to range between 500 000 ...

Approximately a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, which is the seedbed from which all forms of ...

The cause of giant cell arteritis is complex; the fewer risk loci identified in giant cell arteritis compared with other immune-mediated diseases emphasises that an intricate relationship between ...

Asthma, one of the most common non-communicable chronic diseases globally, provides a compelling example of how health inequities can impact the incidence and severity of a respiratory condition. The ...

The term long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, was coined in spring, 2020, by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 in response to unsatisfactory recognition of this ...

Population-wide screening of children for presymptomatic early-stage type 1 diabetes is gaining momentum. Studies have demonstrated feasibility and acceptance, and shown that the rate of progression ...

Amblyopia, a neural disorder induced by atypical visual experiences during the crucial period of visual development, affects ...

The fact that our homes are inextricably linked to our health is not new. “One might have imagined that science and common ...

Home to about 8·2% of the global population, Latin America experienced a disproportionate burden of COVID-19. The region ...

Sjögren's disease is a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous disease to which precision medicine, on the basis of clinical and biological heterogeneity, has been not always applicable. In ...

A 42-year-old man with a history of an intermittent disorder of speech fluency beginning around the age of 4 years without ...