Humans are programmed to follow intellectual fashions. In the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the concept that inflammation is the core problem is dominant, whereas other key ...

The Review by Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer and colleagues1 on sepsis in patients who are immunocompromised is comprehensive and addresses a key and complex population. However, we would like to express ...

Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of ...

Language in reproductive health care, unlike elsewhere, has always defaulted to using the words woman and women due to the historic invisibility of pregnant transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse ...

An estimated 2·1 billion adults worldwide are affected by overweight and obesity, a figure projected to reach 3·8 billion by ...

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When approached for a quote about Jeffrey D Rothstein, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Director of the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore MD, USA), his ...

WHO has recognised mental health and, more recently, brain health as public health priorities.1 This momentum was further advanced at the National, Regional and International Plans for Brain and ...

More than 82 million people could be living with dementia by 2030,1 the majority in low-income and middle-income countries ...

Therapeutic advances have altered the neurodegenerative trajectory and improved clinical outcomes for individuals with spinal muscular atrophy. Current therapies increase concentrations of survival ...

Consciousness has many aspects, from wakefulness to complex cognitive feats, but sentience—ie, the capacity for feeling—is paradoxically simpler yet the most difficult aspect of consciousness to ...

Down syndrome is the most common cause of genetically determined Alzheimer's disease. Individuals with trisomy 21 carry an extra copy of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene and overproduce ...