We identified a large and rapidly growing cohort of people with MBC. The majority were initially diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer. Their demographic and clinical characteristics can be used ...

An estimated 60% of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop epilepsy or subclinical epileptiform activity over the course of the disease. New-onset seizures in cognitively healthy adults also ...

Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease are bidirectionally related. Epilepsy is often complicated by progressive cognitive impairments, and late-onset epilepsy (onset generally after 55–65 years of age) is ...

Australia's landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme has helped thousands of disabled people, but its cost has sky-rocketed to unsustainable levels. Chris McCall reports.

More than 1 year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians are attempting to rebuild a health system that was outdated, systematically targeted for more than a decade, and impacted by crippling ...

Fertility decline is a global trend but particularly a concern in the Western Pacific region. Since 2021, the total fertility rates in many parts of Asia have already fallen below 2.1 per woman, the ...

Recommendations to reduce sedentary time and increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity are at the core of current public health strategies to enhance population health.1,2 However, the effect of ...

Bénédicte Nobile and Philippe Courtet's critique of our Correspondence1 represents a textbook case of genocide denial and selective moral disengagement. Our Correspondence was based on peer-reviewed ...

What began as an emergency measure during COVID-19 has grown into a statewide initiative towards universal health coverage. Dinesh C Sharma reports from India.

The control of severe and life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood through vaccination is one of the greatest triumphs of public health, with some 154 million lives saved through global ...

In July, 2025, the UK Government published the long-awaited National Health Service (NHS) 10-year plan for England centred on three major shifts:1 from hospital to community; analogue to digital; and ...

For the last 20 years, the standard-of-care adjuvant treatment for resected pathologically defined high-risk resected locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA-SCCHN) has been ...