A 34-year-old woman with a 2-year history of progressively worsening difficulties in walking, eating and swallowing, ...

Advanced proteomic organ ageing is associated with the long-term risk of age-related diseases. In most cases, faster ageing ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising globally, with a disproportionate impact on individuals in low-income and middle-income countries, where access to care and new therapies is often limited.

The assessment of cardiovascular risk and the implementation of risk reduction interventions for females remain considerable ...

Feb 27, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) coming into force. This legally binding international treaty, the first negotiated by WHO, rapidly ...

The Lancet has discovered that our editorial policies prior to the publication of the Clinical Picture Feeding dystonia, chorea, psychosis, and self-mutilation in an African patient with ...

In their Article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante and colleagues report results of the PRIME-AIR ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

The incidence of post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) has been estimated at 6–40%, in which patients have at ...

Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist ...

It began one hot summer morning as I awoke in the thorny embrace of brambles in a hedge on the South Downs, UK. The bicycle between my legs had morphed from transport to sleeping pallet. Marking ...

The challenges of translating neuroprotective interventions with promising efficacy in animal studies into effective ...