The roots of a dysfunctional health system and the collision of the epidemics of communicable and non-communicable diseases in South Africa can be found in policies from periods of the country’s…

Plasmodium vivax is geographically the most widely distributed cause of malaria in people, with up to 2·5 billion people at risk and an estimated 80 million to 300 million clinical cases…

A comment published in this week’s edition of The Lancet reports that nutrition experts have expressed their astonishment over the involvement of Sweden in a debate concerning support of low carbohydrate…

By examining blood samples donated by infected people in developing countries, US researchers have found two new powerful antibodies to HIV that open the door to a new and effective AIDS…

An article published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet reports that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) do not interfere with the clinical benefit of the anticlotting drugs clopidogrel…

A US study found that despite risk factors such as being overweight and smoking, blacks were more likely to die from pancreatic cancer than whites.

The cohort study was the work of…

Following a report by the Scottish Spina Bifida Association (SSBA) that showed 15 babies have been born with the condition in Scotland since January, double the usual figure, sexually active…

An editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reports that Canada must change its H1N1vaccine policy to speed up access to the vaccine for high-risk groups such as pregnant women, children and…