South Korea is one of the few countries considered to have controlled hypertension thanks to concerted policy over the past 15 years. Faith McLellan reports.

After 5 years as the WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, Rik Peeperkorn reflects on one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises. John Zarocostas reports.

Silvana was an 82-year-old woman living in a nursing home in northern Italy with right-sided weakness and aphasia after a stroke. One evening the medical staff found her on the floor next to her bed, ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) commonly coexists with poor muscle health, which encompasses three interconnected domains: muscle mass, muscle function, and muscle ...

Khiara Bridges, a lawyer and anthropologist, has long wrestled with inequities in pregnancy outcomes between Black and White people. In her first book on the topic, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of ...

Although school shootings remain rare, each time one is reported in the media it is met with shock and disbelief. Over the past two decades, school shootings have increased in the USA and have also ...

I love primary care medicine, but my frustration with it was that almost everything I was dealing with was preventable”, recalls Donald Warne, Professor in International Health and Co-Director of the ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak in DR Congo and Uganda is already a severe public health crisis. As The Lancet goes to press, 116 suspected cases, 330 confirmed cases, and 49 deaths have been ...

The increasing risks to human health and society from the triple planetary crisis (ie, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pollution) underscore the need for a holistic One Health framework to ...

Endothelin biology remains an attractive therapeutic target in IgA nephropathy where intrarenal endothelin-1 expression is upregulated and implicated in nephron loss through vasoconstriction, ...

The Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense) outbreak in DR Congo has already registered over 300 confirmed cases, including more than 40 deaths (as of May 31, 2026).1 Transmission has been ...

On May 17, 2026, WHO determined the Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.1 Early data indicate two-thirds of cases have been ...