Ron Hollander, president of the International Neuroendocrine Cancer Alliance, talks to us about patient advocacy.

Groups of people doing communal exercises are an everyday sight in Japan, but for one woman they are a very public way to show she is fighting back.

Over the next 15 years chronic disease like cancer and heart disease will become major killers in Sub-Saharan Africa. A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit explains why.

Chronic diseases kill 38 million people per year worldwide; almost three-quarters of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. It’s time to act.

An interview with Thierry Diagana, Head of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases.

Novartis researchers are searching for more effective ways to discover drugs for neurological and psychiatric diseases.

A researcher in South Africa investigating a rare skin disease was losing hope of a breakthrough. Then she made a discovery.