The opioid crisis, once primarily a concern of high-income countries, is increasingly becoming a substantial public health challenge in Nigeria.1 The alarming rise in opioid abuse, particularly among ...

In 2017, the Philippines' Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board initiated the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), which aims to phase out traditional fuel-dependent ...

Surgical specialties have changed the patient experience by introducing an endoscope to reduce surgical trauma and fasten ...

The floods in August, 2024 in Bangladesh triggered an unprecedented public health emergency, exposing the incipient fragility of the nation's health-care system under such catastrophic natural ...

We pooled data from 11 Nordic cohorts, totaling 161,115 participants. Based on address history from five years before baseline until end of follow-up, road, railway, and aircraft ...

Modern gynaecological oncology practice prioritises the early evaluation and referral of suspicious adnexal masses to prevent or detect ovarian cancer as early as possible to maximise survival.

When artist Andrew Crummy was recovering from chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat tonsil cancer at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, UK, in 2017, he was contacted by Rod Mountain, an ear, ...

In more than a dozen years spent reviewing shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, I struggle to remember laughing quite so much as I did at Identities, a 1-hour ...

In the opening chapter, Syd's sister Kay, author of autobiographical memoir Losing You, Finding Me, reads his latest scan report: ”'Well, its not good news’, I said laughing – trying desperately to ...

The UK's beleaguered National Health Service (NHS) was in sharp focus after publication of the eagerly awaited Darzi review on Sept 12, 2024. The review was commissioned by the new Labour Government ...

A new Article by Nguyen Tran and colleagues1 documents adverse mental health outcomes in sexual and gender minority individuals in the USA exposed to efforts to change their sexual orientation, gender ...

Copyright: © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. The Georgian leading expert in the implementation of programs to control HIV and hepatitis died on Aug 1 ...