Emergency department overcrowding and access block are now among the most consequential patient-safety problems facing acute hospitals globally.1 The associated harm is measurable, dose-dependent, and ...

On my tenth visit, it took me two attempts to find the care and treatment centre (CTC) for people living with HIV/AIDS in Miono, Tanzania. The one-storey white building, where patients used to sit ...

With an opportunity to overturn Republican control of Congress, Democrats hope to win voters’ support by focusing on cuts to health-care programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Jim Catto, co-leading author of the Lancet Series on men's health, was reluctant to be the subject of a profile, insisting it is more important to highlight what he is trying to accomplish: tackling ...

Afghanistan has reported twice as many polio cases than in 2025, prompting concern over the Taliban's vaccination policies. Samaan Lateef reports.

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change celebrated its tenth anniversary this week. The Countdown was preceded by two Lancet Commissions that sought to mobilise multiple disciplines within ...

A patient in France has died from the infection, which normally affects cattle. Virologists say the wider risk to public health is low. Marianne Guenot reports.

Many men are failing to thrive. Shorter life expectancies for men than for woman first emerged in the 19th century and the gap has continued to widen (albeit with geographical variations). Men have a ...

Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, and functional diarrhoea are disorders of gut–brain interaction, the symptoms ...

In his recent Offline on the upcoming elections for the new Director-General of WHO,1 Richard Horton mentions several of the previous Director-Generals, starting with Hiroshi Nakajima (1988–98); ...

The Lancet Editorial1 on skin diseases rightly argues that vitiligo trials such as Viti-Up, in which more than 70% of participants were White, should enrol patients who reflect the population affected ...

Sickle cell disease is the most common haemoglobinopathy, affecting more than 7 million people worldwide.1 Despite ...