Foreign-born practitioners in the health professions are critical to the health-care labour force in many high-income countries. In addition, both immigrant and non-immigrant health professionals have ...

We thank the authors for their interest in our paper, and their queries. In response to Yue Li and Guangsen Liu, given the current situation of malaria deaths and cases increasing in recent years,1 it ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common chronic systemic disease associated with uveitis in childhood. Uveitis occurs in 11–22% of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.1 Due to the ...

Public health emergencies demand decisive leadership, proactive capacities, and swift, coordinated responses to mitigate their impacts on lives, livelihoods, and economies, particularly in Africa, ...

Polio is a highly viral infectious disease that poses a life-threating risk to young children, often leading to paralysis and death, and children who are not fully immunised are especially vulnerable.

We thank our colleagues for their interest in our Article.1 In response to Ari R Joffe, we provided estimates of the number of severe outcomes associated with a fully vaccinated counterfactual. These ...

In their Article, the HDR UK COALESCE Consortium concluded that those who are fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 are less likely to be admitted to hospital and to die with COVID-19.1 If the tests for ...

When I spoke to researcher Catherine Draper, she was about to travel to work in a rural area of South Africa. Draper is Associate Professor in the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research ...

WHO disease outbreak news report1 on malaria underscores the challenges posed in DR Congo and neighbouring regions.2 The update identifies acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria, with 891 ...

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission has accused Saima Wazed of securing her position thanks to her mother, Bangladesh's former Prime Minister. Samaan Lateef reports.

Several studies have found non-live vaccines, including the RTS,S malaria vaccine, to be associated with increased female mortality.1 It is therefore unfortunate that the recent paper by Mehreen Datoo ...

Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ...