We are witnessing a cascade of global crises on every front. War and devastation in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, and forgotten conflicts elsewhere that are rarely acknowledged. Climate-related disasters ...

Chikungunya virus disease, a debilitating mosquito-borne (Aedes spp) illness caused by an alphavirus, chikungunya virus, is usually endemic in regions with tropical climates.1 Since the beginning of ...

Each year, 1·3 million people die from viral hepatitis, and mortality is increasing.1 This World Hepatitis Day, all stakeholders must break down the barriers to hepatitis elimination, including ending ...

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often ...

Management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) includes multimodal therapy that depends on expert ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an under-recognised global health threat that affects over 250 million individuals, of whom 80% reside in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). HBV causes ...

World Hepatitis Day is marked each year on July 28. Last year, WHO's Global Hepatitis Report 2024 made clear the enormous burden of viral hepatitis: more than 2 million people are newly infected with ...

UN Women published data on the shadow pandemic: the pandemic of violence against women that occurred as a result of COVID-19.

The World Federation of Neurology represents 125 member societies globally and aims to foster brain health and quality neurology worldwide. The term brain health has become an acknowledged term of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how ill-prepared the world was to detect and respond to global health threats. With over 7·1 million lives lost,1 more than US$4·7 trillion in economic damage,2 profound ...

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Jean Claude Katte and colleagues report the results of the cross-sectional ...