The AIDS pandemic continues to be a major global health issue. Despite significantly accelerated implementation of effective prevention and treatment tools to address HIV and AIDS, in 2015 alone, HIV ...
Generation of digital data has expanded exponentially over the last decade, inspiring visions of data-driven healthcare and precision medicine. But the promise of big data is tempered by today’s reality ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the dubious privilege of being a fertile ground for a diabetes epidemic. It has a population of over 1 billion and one of the fastest rates ...
Open Access (OA) publishing enables research articles to be made freely available to other researchers and the public. It encourages the sharing of results and findings, which in turn helps ...
Three quarters of the global disease burden associated with mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this high burden, a large treatment ...
The Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) has set a target for worldwide rabies elimination by 2030. To achieve this there is a need for policy-makers to commit to cost-effective ...
This blog post was written by Manjinder Sandhu and Elizabeth Young Electronic health records (EHRs) can produce invaluable data to inform health care decisions and national and regional health planning. ...
Despite a decade of scientific research, methodological differences between studies have hampered the ability to critically evaluate the clinical utility of polygenic risk prediction models of common diseases. Understanding the ...
The continued threat of mosquito-transmitted diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever and Zika, combined with the development of resistance to insecticides, has driven the need to develop new methods for ...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an infectious blood-borne virus which affects approximately 150 million people worldwide. If untreated, it can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver failure and death. It is ...