In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that switch on cooling and heating when you need it.

Climate change has forced states to build systems for a hazard they historically weren't organized to manage.

New reporting from the Guardian has shed further light on the ‘ethnicity pain gap’. This is what has to be done to close it, says Devi Sridhar, global public health chair at Edinburgh University

Patients from minority ethnic backgrounds often have to demonstrate higher levels of pain, only to receive less effective treatment

For decades, malaria has been one of Africa's most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed

Henrik Ibsen's character Dr Stockmann was concerned at an outbreak of illness among his patients. His private investigation pointed to biological contamination of water in the public baths that were t...

Two inventors designed a 3D-printed brick that cools city streets by 16°F. See how this eco-friendly tech fights urban heat islands.

Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds.

Study of 11,000 cities finds urban heat, green space, and wealth inequality grow predictably as cities expand.

The quality of Ehler and Repasi’s amendments will force the European Council and Commission to take them extremely seriously, says Jan Palmowski

The winning actors, directors, pictures and more at the 98th annual Academy Awards.

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Opinion: As G7 aid cuts threaten TB programs, affordable diagnostics developed in the global south offer a path forward for high-burden countries to help close the testing gap and save lives.

Bird flu surges and a government shutdown collide, complicating efforts to track cases and protect flocks.

Chibuike Agu, at the Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria, leads a CHORUS Innovation...

The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.

As we enter the second quarter of the 21st century, geopolitical shifts and funding cuts have created a necessity for reinvention of the global health architecture. While the crisis is severe and disr...

At the World Health Summit (WHS) 2025 in Berlin, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research joined two sessions exploring how health can serve as a bridge to peace in fragile and conflict-aff...

The US retreat from global health funding has disproportionally affected African countries. Will African governments allow the cycle of dependency to continue, or reassert sovereignty over their healt...

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between 2020 and 2023, said an author of the study published in The Lancet. The world ...

Key PointsHbSC disease is the second most common form of SCD, which has largely been excluded from research and therapies.We developed humanized HbSC mice

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Western countries have slashed foreign aid budgets this year and reductions will steepen in 2026, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada cutting the most, according to a new analy...

The abrupt cessation of global health funding has placed millions of lives at risk.1 This sudden funding freeze violates basic bioethical principles and values, including human rights, universality, a...

A new global partnership, Resilient Cities, Reimagining Health, brings together 22 cities across 15 countries to tackle climate-related health risks and build healthier urban environments.

This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly R...

Welcome to our Book Interview Series where we hear from academics and researchers across the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSP) about their most recent book publications.

Gepotidacin demonstrated non-inferiority to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin for urogenital N gonorrhoeae, with no new safety concerns, offering a novel oral treatment option for uncomplicated urogenital...

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.