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 ...

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

In this Clinical Rounds, we present a case of neuroborreliosis in a man aged 59 years who initially complained of headache, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Does antibiotic restriction prevent resistance?” Their 1996 review is often cited as being the first to apply “stewardship” ...

The 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in DR Congo and Uganda, caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), represents one of the most consequential epidemic emergencies in Africa.

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, ...

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 ...