Suicide is the leading cause of death in New Zealanders aged 15–19 years. Advocates are calling for better approaches to prevention and support. Sophie Cousins, Clive Aspin, and Suzy Taylor report.

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to ...

WHO's approval of the RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) malaria vaccine in 2021 marked a milestone in global public health. It represented not only the first vaccine approved against any parasitic human disease ...

Lebanon's already weakened health system is overwhelmed, under-resourced, and increasingly attacked by the Israeli army. Amelie David reports from Lebanon.

It is official: global warming is accelerating. In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters in March, 2026, Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf strip out the noise of natural variability in ...

In this issue of The Lancet, Topaz and colleagues1 report the first systematic evaluation of the authenticity of references. The authors initially identified 125 615 773 references from 2 471 758 ...

Trauma remains the leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents worldwide, yet paediatric trauma care is often under-prioritised in health system development.1–3 This neglect ...

In Greek mythology, Atlas is the powerful Titan condemned by Zeus to eternally bear the celestial spheres—a profound symbol of endurance and strength. These very virtues are necessitated in patients ...

The ENO Breathe programme can improve HRQOL, breathlessness, anxiety, and respiratory symptoms in people with long COVID and breathlessness. ENO Breathe could be tested in other major causes of ...

Proportionally more children undergo trauma laparotomy in lower-resource settings than in higher-resource settings; however, their mortality risk is substantially higher. Marked variation exists in ...

There is a folder on my computer that I avoid as much as possible. It is called Health and it holds the clinical letters and other documents from all the consultants and other health-care ...

We thank Chris Newman for the thoughtful input. We share the interest in ensuring that the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change is tracking actions that support rapid greenhouse gas emissions ...