Even as smoking prevalence among adults in many high-income countries has fallen, the global burden of mortality attributed ...
The 2026 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change found that climate change has become an unprecedented ...
Obstetric fistula is a devastating morbidity that rightly merits investigation and advocacy, as attempted in the World Report by Clotilde Bigot.1 However, we are dismayed by the quality of this ...
Although North Korea remains largely closed to the rest of the world, its recent state messaging suggests a shift in the country's approach to health care from long-standing isolation towards ...
Clinical guidelines generally favour coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) over percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as the revascularisation strategy of choice in patients with left main ...
The Tumaini trial protocol (NCT07842107) developed by the National Institute of Biomedical Research of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and partners to evaluate the efficacy of vaccines against ...
Non-invasive tests (NITs) are central to clinical decision making in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease ...
The report, Open Science and the Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Exchange: Policy Options for Reliable Research,1 published in October, 2026, was commissioned by the ...
In 2026, the USA has grappled with large foodborne disease outbreaks, the most notable due to Cyclospora cayetanensis linked to iceberg lettuce. This outbreak, affecting thousands, has made ...
With an opportunity to overturn Republican control of Congress, Democrats hope to win voters’ support by focusing on cuts to health-care programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
Jim Catto, co-leading author of the Lancet Series on men's health, was reluctant to be the subject of a profile, insisting it is more important to highlight what he is trying to accomplish: tackling ...
Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, and functional diarrhoea are disorders of gut–brain interaction, the symptoms ...