For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly
those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an individual, personal level has, by …

Cancer is low or absent on the health agendas of low-and middle-income countries (LMCs)
despite the fact that more people die from cancer in these countries than from AIDS and …

Background The age-specific mortality rates and total deaths from specific cancers have not
been documented for the various regions and subpopulations of India. We therefore …

Executive summary Since their introduction into medicine in the 1940s, antibiotics have
been central to modern healthcare. Their role has expanded from treating serious infections …

India's national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally
representative survey of 0.14 million (M) adults, we compared COVID mortality during the …

Background Antimicrobial resistance is a major contemporary public health threat.
Strategies to contain antimicrobial resistance have been comprehensively set forth, however …

Investments in cancer control—prevention, detection, diagnosis, surgery, other treatment,
and palliative care—are increasingly needed in low-income and particularly in middle …

Summary The World Bank is publishing nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd
edition (DCP3) between 2015 and 2018. Volume 9, Improving Health and Reducing …

Infectious diseases were responsible for the largest global burden of premature death and
disability until the end of the twentieth century, when that distinction passed to …