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 is an independent, foresight-driven initiative that applies quantitative and qualitative methods to identify, characterise, and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...