Aim Children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families often have lower developmental outcomes than their socioeconomically more advantaged peers. In early childhood, language development (LD) in ...

Prospective cohort studies are a mainstay of epidemiological evidence. However, the study samples they assemble rarely mirror the populations to which thei

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

It has taken decades for our theory that Alzheimer’s is triggered by viral infections to be taken seriously.

John Snow was a famous English physician considered to be one of the founders of public health.

The health crisis in Iran and across the Middle East is “escalating rapidly”, reported Hanan Balkhy, WHO's Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. She was speaking at a WHO press conference…

In his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe observes: “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered” [1]. Global health has likewise come to revere achiev...

Physician, epidemiologist, and anaesthetist. Born in York, UK, on March 15, 1813, he died in London on June 16, 1858, aged 45 years.

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

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An increasing number of national and international commitments have failed to reduce three intimately interconnected major global threats to population health: non-communicable diseases, outbreaks of ...