Mrs A, a 46-year-old Indigenous woman, presented to a clinic in Callao, near Lima, Peru. Her husband accompanied her and did much of the talking. Reticent and with flat affect, she complained of ...

Raised blood pressure remains the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature mortality worldwide ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

Changes in federal prescribing recommendations follow deliberate and transparent processes involving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, which normally include input from stakeholders ...

Driven by high prices, lack of insurance, and a desire to lose weight, the proliferation of fake and falsified obesity drugs is prompting public health concern. Sophie Cousins reports.

We thank the authors for their comments and interest in our Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and human health.

I was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer with lymph-node metastasis at 29 weeks pregnant. I was 37 years old. My cancer diagnosis revealed to me the complexities of being a patient in two ...

Women spend 9 years of their lives in poor health, which is 25% more than men.1 For women, these years are not confined to the end of life, but centred earlier in life from menarche up to menopause.1 ...

One of the reasons why we decided to work on postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) was because we realised that we know how to prevent PPH, we know how to treat it—and yet, out of about 14 million women ...

The country's new government has promised to prioritise primary care and public health spending after years of neglect. Samaan Lateef reports.

Antipsychotic medicines are a key part of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Although they provide therapeutic ...

US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...