An estimated 3–10% of patients with asthma are unable to reach full control with currently available inhaled therapies. In a large proportion of these patients, asthma can be driven in whole or in ...

A quarter of the way into the 21st century, emerging from the most consequential pandemic in 100 years, public health finds itself in a tricky moment. Although there has been enormous progress in ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, and irreversible lung disease associated with poor quality of life, reduced survival, and substantial health-care use.1 Although the ...

The Advisory Committee on Vaccine Practices’ recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination prompt questions and concern. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.

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The American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) described a good photograph as one “that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”. This ...

In our continuing series on medicine in unusual circumstances, Talha Burki takes the temperature of health care in polar ...

Innovative neuroscientist who advanced knowledge of spatial awareness and memory. Born in Dublin, Ireland, on March 27, 1970, ...

Type 1 diabetes remains a persistent health-care burden despite substantial advances in care. Its preclinical disease course ...

The Fourth UN High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) ...

Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer, yet many patients do not have response or lasting benefit. Strategies to overcome resistance remain of crucial importance. Oncolytic viruses ...

Long before the harm shows up in crowded hospitals, it begins with smoke curling from open fires in Nigerian kitchens.