Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha ...

Immigration detention centres in Italy constitute a substantive health risk for detainees, including risks of infectious and non-communicable diseases and mental health problems1,2 A 2024 report3 ...

The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health's report by Christopher J L Murray and colleagues uses ...

Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

South Africa is introducing a major change to public-sector asthma care, moving away from reliance on salbutamol-only relief ...

The therapeutic landscape of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has entered a new era, with pharmacological agents capable of improving liver histology now starting to emerge:1 ...

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agents can now work through files and applications on a user's computer.1,2 By ...

Much health advocacy is driven by single-issue activism. Communities with a common interest—from AIDS to child health, ...

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on ...

Simple oral direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has transformed clinical management and paved the way for elimination.1 The first pan-genotypic fixed-dose ...

We agree with Eric J Suba that current global inequalities in cervical cancer burden are driven largely by unequal access to effective screening programmes. This point was highlighted by Brisson and ...

The Thirlwall Inquiry1 was set up to examine events at the Countess of Chester Hospital (Chester, UK) and their implications following convictions for murder and attempted murder of babies by nurse ...