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

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

Patients increasingly use conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including for possible diagnoses, before seeing a ...

Changes to the formulary for 14 000 prisoners have been criticised as inconsistent with best practice. Paul Webster reports.

These are two lectures that form the Virchow Prize Lecture given by the authors in October, 2026. The first lecture was given ...

Countries such as the Solomon Islands and Fiji have pioneered mass drug administration for the disease. Sophie Cousins reports.

The theme of this year's World Mental Health Day, held on Oct 10, is Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change. On its website, WHO states that the voices of people with lived experience ...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access ...

WHO has established a global target to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains one of the leading causes of cirrhosis, ...

I’m concerned that the narrative now around ageing populations is one of doom and gloom. But long-lived populations are not ...

We thank João Martins and Aneel Bhangu, Hermann Brenner and colleagues, and Uri Ladabaum and colleagues for their interesting comments on our report from the NordICC trial.1 We agree with Martins and ...

Volatile and prohibitive immigration rules are raising concerns about staffing health and social care across the USA. Roxanne Nelson reports.