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Policy responses should be based on the known characteristics of an emerging pathogen with pandemic potential and the tools available to tackle it, rather than on specific known pathogens.
Advances in organoids and the role of the microbiome and diet are leading to new diagnostics and treatments for endometriosis, motivating a precision health approach to this long-neglected disease.
Neuroimaging data uncover dynamic trajectories associated with brain cortical changes in women during pregnancy and in the postpartum period that are influenced by the type of childbirth.
Health impacts from climate change have been apparent for at least 20 years, but the climate crisis is still not treated like other global public health emergencies.
Electronic health information, including from electronic health records, is needed to develop AI tools for health, but the seamless flow of data will require standards and interoperability.
In patients with resected, high-risk melanoma, the addition of a personalized mRNA-based neoantigen therapy to adjuvant pembrolizumab was more effective than pembrolizumab alone.
Implementation of multifactorial interventions in a low- to middle-income setting during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood resulted in improvements to child neurodevelopment at 24 months of age.
We are launching a new Series as a starting point for discussions on how to improve the health of women and girls as part of a route to achieving global health equity.
High financial costs and limited evidence restrict the adoption of robotic surgery, but new uses for robots and attempts to assess efficacy could widen access.
Researchers used machine-learning models to emulate thousands of clinical trials from over 10 years’ worth of real-world data, generating a shortlist of five candidate drugs for repurposing.
Known as tethered macrocyclic peptides, a new class of antibiotics show potent activity against drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii — with one candidate already in clinical trials.
Two recent papers illustrate that a noninvasive technique can be used for extensive prenatal genetic screening — potentially enabling earlier diagnosis of many conditions.
CAR T cell therapy has transformed the treatment of B cell cancers and is now being pursued by biotech companies for conditions as varied as systemic lupus erythematosus, diabetes and organ rejection.