With more big pledges expected in the coming months, the result of The Global Fund's eighth replenishment allayed the worst ...

Following a large drop in international aid, and the harms that followed, Tanzania is taking steps to decrease its reliance ...

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in ...

Globally, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is now the most common chronic liver disease, affecting up to one in three people in the general population, with an ...

Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change, political leaders are increasingly ...

The destruction of Gaza's health system represents one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time and demands a response from professional health organisations. European public health associations ...

Chairing a Lancet Commission is a daunting challenge.1 Our task is particularly great as we are leading the first Commission focused on disability, and it should encompass the experience of 1·3 ...

Doctors sometimes meet with patients in suicidal crises; for psychiatrists and general practitioners it is part of our routine clinical work. When a conversation can unfold with such patients, it ...

One thing about South Asian populations is that we do have a very different presentation of diabetes, partly due to our ...

There was a strange sense of relief at the eighth replenishment conference for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which took place on Nov 21, in South Africa. The USA is by far ...

Mechanical ventilation highlights the fundamental paradox of critical care: it can be both life-saving and life-threatening.

Sailesh Kotecha's family settled in London after being expelled from Uganda in 1972. Given his strong interest in human biology, he opted to study medicine. He was awarded a scholarship to study at ...