Health Check

Immune system researchers win Nobel Prize

Creating human eggs from skin cells

Trump’s unproven claims on autism and paracetamol

More children are obese than underweight

The psychology of curiosity

Have we found a better alternative to aspirin?

A breakthrough in treating chronic pain

Using AI to discover new antibiotics

How plastic harms health

Malnutrition in Gaza

Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes

Do you really have a penicillin allergy?

HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO

First malaria treatment approved for newborns

Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs?

Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide

Future thinking

Mpox surging in Sierra Leone

Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes

A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts

A promising new antimalarial

Listening to your body's signals

Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease

Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed

WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty

Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?

The Kidney Waiting Game

Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’

How do funding cuts feel?

Judge blocks further USAID shutdown

Measles spreads in the Americas

Ninety percent of USAID programs cut

Improving global encephalitis care

The global oxygen crisis

The psychology of nostalgia

Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

USA issues stop-work order on global aid

A WHO without the United States

The toll of wildfires on health

Should we be worried about HMPV?

A Malawi ‘Spay Day’

One Health in Malawi

2024 in global health: a review

Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit

Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations

Health crisis in Sudan

Resistance to leading malaria drug

What a Trump presidency means for global health

Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease

Weight loss gold rush