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

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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

Musculoskeletal conditions, including forms of inflammatory arthritis such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and axial spondyloarthritis, are leading causes of ...

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

On May 15, 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda declared outbreaks of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus. On May 17, 2026, the Director-General of WHO determined that the ...

In August, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines ...

Anne-Marie Cockburn is convinced that punitive drug policies led to her daughter Martha's death in 2013. “As a society, we're treating drug use as a moral failing rather than the health issue it is.