High mutation rates erode viral sequence similarity, obscuring deep evolutionary history. While protein structure is far more conserved than sequence, its use in evolutionary studies has historically ...

Mobilising finance at scale is essential to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity finance from all sources – public and private, dom...

WHO act sheet on the 10 leading causes of death. In 2023, the 10 leading causes of death accounted for 33 million deaths, or 54% of the total 61 million deaths worldwide. The top global causes of dea...

WHO’s latest Global Health Estimates, released on 2 October 2026, provide a picture of how health has changed across countries and regions between 2000 and 2023, including trends in life expectancy, c...

To help host countries and event organizers better anticipate and manage heat-related health risks, WHO is releasing a new set of resources under the title Prevention and management of heat-related il...

Our findings highlight the importance of infection control to achieve cancer prevention. Scientifically proven, but often underused, approaches include HPV and HBV vaccination; testing and treatment o...

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University of Sydney experts have developed Australia's first National Health Literacy Framework to help people access, understand and use health information.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Why hunger and obesity belong to the same political economy

This report summarizes 2023 data from CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System on violent deaths and suicides that occurred in the U.S., District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Teacher shortages affect most OECD education systems to varying degrees, with recruitment challenges particularly acute in mathematics and science, as well as in rural, remote and disadvantaged commun...

When male mosquitoes are infected with a naturally occurring microbe called Wolbachia, the eggs laid by their female mates don’t hatch.

How do noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors vary across population groups within countries, and what can governments do to ensure that no one is left behind?As countries work towards...

As someone who became an epidemiologist in the pre-Internet era, one of the essential half a dozen books on my office’s front shelf was the first edition o

Recognizing a public health problem is not an abstract conceptual exercise; it is a practical act that mobilizes institutions, directs policy, and shapes c

The tragic death, disability, and chaos wrought by the COVID-19 are fading from collective memory. The pandemic created a global health crisis that led to more than 7 million reported deaths, an estim...

Whether screening with blood-based early-detection tests for multiple cancers in addition to usual care has clinical utility is unknown. In a randomized, controlled trial conducted in England, we o...

The high fatality rate, along with the large proportion of community deaths, highlights problems with timely case detection and healthcare access.

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of technology enabling machines to emulate complex human skills; it can also entail problem-solving using bioinspired methods. It is used for au.....

This report examines how OECD governments can deliver better public administrative services (PAS). These are the administrative processes that people use to comply with laws and regulations, access go...

Announcing the Health Aid Transition Fund

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

The atlas of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex was created using samples from almost 1,500 donors of all ages — from infants to centenarians.

Once symptoms appear, the rabies survival rate is less than 1%—but prevention measures and quick post-exposure interventions can save lives.

The technique uses chemical tags to shut down viral DNA lurking in a host’s genome.

Standard workgroup process began over the summer