Updates from our mobile clinics, health outreach, and medical supply programs across Gaza.
"Harelip" is an outdated, offensive word for cleft lip. What cleft lip and cleft palate are, what causes them, how common they are and how they are treated.
Desalination removes salt from water; reverse osmosis does it by pushing water through a membrane. How it works, the energy and brine, and why Gaza needs it.
A dialysis machine pumps blood through a filter that removes waste and extra fluid when the kidneys fail. How it works, and the state of dialysis in Gaza.
Does music therapy help PTSD? Reviews suggest it can ease symptoms, but the evidence is low-certainty. What a session involves and who is qualified to give it.
Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis is the main referral hospital in southern Gaza. A dated timeline of events there since 2023, and its status now.
Pediatric neurosurgery is surgery on a child's brain, spine and nerves. What pediatric neurosurgeons treat, how they train and who else operates on children.
Razan al-Najjar was a volunteer paramedic shot and killed in Gaza on 1 June 2018 while treating the wounded. Who she was, and what UN investigators found.
PICU means pediatric intensive care unit: the hospital ward for critically ill children. Who is treated there, who works there and how it differs from a NICU.