Coronary artery disease frequently accompanies severe aortic stenosis and is identified in up to half of patients referred for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).1 Yet the optimal ...
Aspirin is considered the cornerstone of secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. However, the evidence supporting aspirin was largely generated before the advent of modern pharmacological and ...
The global epidemiology and prognosis of meningitis have been transformed by the introduction of conjugate vaccines, and by advances in antimicrobial therapy, critical care, and adjunctive treatments ...
In 2019, revelations that American financier Jeffrey Epstein had orchestrated a powerful international network for human trafficking and sexual exploitation shocked the conscience of global society.
In October, 2015, 22 scientists from ten countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, to evaluate the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and ...
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Imagine a world where no child is deprived of healthy food. Governments around the globe have been ...
The African Union, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has operationalised strategies on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), injuries, and mental health to reverse the ...
The devastation caused by COVID-19 brought pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR) to the forefront of the global political agenda. But in many quarters, global attention has waned amid ...
The disparity in global childhood cancer survival is well known: survival probabilities exceed 80% in high-income countries, whereas they remain around 30% in low-income countries.1–3 But there are ...
For the first time in the history of both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the International Space Station, a crew medical concern prompted an unprecedented evacuation, ...
Despite its enormous global burden, osteoarthritis has no licensed disease-modifying treatments, and available analgesics have moderate efficacy and substantial side-effects.1 The success of ...
My mom and I left Iran when I was 5 years old, just the two of us…there had been the revolution in 1979, so it was a combination of factors, wanting to get her PhD, but also wanting to get away from ...