In The Lancet in 1971, Julian Tudor Hart gave medicine one of its most important insights: the availability of medical care ...

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Alzheimer's disease has a long preclinical phase in which neuropathological changes, such as amyloid β (Aβ) and tau pathology, accumulate over many years.1 This preclinical phase provides an ...

A lack of vaccines, diagnostics, and basic public health capacity is raising fears over the scale of the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo and Uganda. John Agaba reports from Kampala.

Halting the insidious accumulation of irreversible disability remains the principal challenge in multiple sclerosis care. Once classified as relapsing (including relapsing-remitting and active ...

An athletics event at which participants are permitted to use performance-enhancing drugs has drawn criticism from sports scientists and anti-doping agencies. Talha Burki reports.

Born in Memphis, TN, Reisa Sperling grew up in Bethlehem, PA, USA. She left there aged 17 years to become an actress in New York City, an adventure that lasted for nearly a decade, until she decided ...

Neuroepidemiologist and neurosurgeon who improved epilepsy care in China. He was born in Shahe City, Hebei Province, China, on April 10, 1941, and died on March 7, 2026, in Beijing, China, aged 84 ...

We thank Amit Kalra and colleagues for engaging with the SCIENCE study1 and welcome the opportunity to respond. We agree that an elbow-specific patient-reported outcome measure for children with ...

In their Correspondence, Bilal Irfan and colleagues highlight broad challenges facing Syria's health system.1 We emphasise the need for nuanced, evidence-driven analysis, grounded in the current ...

aMedical Research Council, Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe PO Box 49, Uganda bFaculty of Epidemiology and Population ...

As health security expands to address climate, trust, and systemic risks, a continued focus on emergency preparedness risks fragmenting public health and obscuring the political and economic drivers ...