Bangalore overheard in the back seat of a taxi at midnight

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

An angry crowd set fire to Ebola isolation tents outside a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Ituri province on Thursday after the family of

The 79th World Health Assembly adopted a widely anticipated Global Health Architecture Reform initiative. While WHO and many member states lauded it as a

Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.

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From St Mary’s to KC Lights, school choirs have started a new music movement in Shillong. It's about career, competition, and cultural identity.

Undermining vaccines, failing pregnant black women, threatening to remove black children with ADHD from their parents – these were some of the barrage of

In 2025, while researching the recent rapid increase in the number of medical colleges in India, I discovered that this aspect of the country’s medical education policy was based, shockingly, on a non...

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How global health learned to include and listen, without redistributing power

Newsletter Edition #157 [Treaty Talks] Readers, A no-blinkers view on the shifts shaping global health is necessary, when so much is changing in geopolitics. In today's edition, we bring you a clea...

Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.

Air pollution increases the risk of diabetes, particularly when exposure is long-term, according to emerging evidence.

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The U.S. is upending the way it delivers medical supplies ​for diseases such as HIV and malaria to lower-income countries, according to seven sources and an internal email, risking a second dislocatio...

Tariffs risk disrupting supply and access to medicines

OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.

What is the name of the book and what are its coordinates? The book is Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change. It was published in June 2025 by Cambridge University Press. What’s the argument? Governments leave international organizations — such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) or the World Health Organization (WHO) — in two ways.

A drone attack on Al‑Jabalain hospital in Sudan’s White Nile state killed at least 10 people, including medical staff, during a children’s immunization campaign. MSF calls for critical protection of h...

This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

The southern Africa country has the world’s highest prevalence of HIV but the amount of lenacapavir reaching it is too small to reach all those at risk

Scientists working on new malaria drugs now have access to an open-access artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform  aimed at accelerating drug discovery,

On a quiet morning in January in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex, 38-year-old Aden Mohamed Hafow, a father of four and a respected comprehensive school