The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission on the present and future of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

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

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 ...

Africa’s digital health revolution, marked by a rapid increase in the number of technologies and providers of electronic health records, mobile health applications, disease surveillance platforms, and ...

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

Obesity has become prevalent in Asian populations with rates rising in the Asia Pacific region.1 East Asian populations, ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) imposes an enormous and unevenly distributed burden in China. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission on the present and future of chronic obstructive ...

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

The report, Open Science and the Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Exchange: Policy Options for Reliable Research,1 published in October, 2026, was commissioned by the ...

Few questions in neonatal medicine have generated as many randomised controlled trials and as little consensus as the ...

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 ...

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 ...