Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha ...

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, also known as the Third Pole, is warming faster than the global average, with mountain environments experiencing particularly rapid climatic change and climatic ...

The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health's report by Christopher J L Murray and colleagues uses ...

Much health advocacy is driven by single-issue activism. Communities with a common interest—from AIDS to child health, ...

Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

Immigration detention centres in Italy constitute a substantive health risk for detainees, including risks of infectious and non-communicable diseases and mental health problems1,2 A 2024 report3 ...

Patients increasingly use conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including for possible diagnoses, before seeing a ...

American television series The Pitt may have redefined the popularity of medical drama, but hospitals have always provided a rich seam for creatives, whether their medium is page or screen. From ...

We agree with Eric J Suba that current global inequalities in cervical cancer burden are driven largely by unequal access to effective screening programmes. This point was highlighted by Brisson and ...

South Africa is introducing a major change to public-sector asthma care, moving away from reliance on salbutamol-only relief ...

Clinical trials are crucial for evidence generation on medicines. As of June, 2025, the European Union’s (EU) clinical trial ...