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Countries do not need to wait until WHO member states reach consensus to begin the essential, though perhaps less exciting, behind-the-scenes system-strengthening work to prepare for the implementation of the pandemic accord. 

Capnographs—simple medical devices that monitor a patient's breathing during surgery—can dramatically lower anesthesia-related complications and deaths, but they are often not available at all in many low-resource countries.  

An estimated 400,000 children and adolescents worldwide develop cancer each year. But only half are ever diagnosed—and where a child lives can determine whether they survive that diagnosis.

Adding more fish to the diets of the world’s poorest populations could reduce malnutrition caused by micronutrient deficiencies.

Researchers are examining what factors make programmatic transition successful, equitable, and sustainable. 

Every four years, the Olympics brings athletes and spectators together from all over the world in one of the largest mass gathering events. Planning begins years in advance, and public health security is a major consideration.

As Paris gets ready to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games the IOC’s declaration of improved standards with food vendors seem deeply at odds with its ongoing partnership with Coca-Cola. 

Increasingly extreme heatwaves are forcing India’s most impoverished people into heat poverty as they borrow large sums to buy air conditioners for their homes.

Ambroise Wonkam, president of the African Society of Human Genetics, discusses how sickle cell disease and malaria marked human evolution in Africa and beyond, and how it highlights the importance of studying the African genome much more thoroughly.

In the communities surrounding Nyarugusu in Western Tanzania, poor access and unaffordability push many to bring their loved ones to the refugee camp—but they often don’t realize the camp’s medical facilities are dramatically under-resourced. 

The destruction of Haiti’s health system has left women and girls especially vulnerable to maternal mortality, unintended pregnancies, and severe health complications.

Climate change-driven saltwater intrusion into rivers and aquifers brings multiple health risks to the women of southwestern Bangladesh. 

Louse-borne relapsing fever is an ancient, yet neglected, infection caused by the Borrelia recurrentis bacteria and spread by body lice.