The report, Open Science and the Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Exchange: Policy Options for Reliable Research,1 published in October, 2026, was commissioned by the ...

Obesity has become prevalent in Asian populations with rates rising in the Asia Pacific region.1 East Asian populations, ...

The Commonwealth's 56 member states are home to 2·7 billion people, more than 60% of whom are aged 29 years or younger. Yet young people remain peripheral to health governance. They are typically ...

Few questions in neonatal medicine have generated as many randomised controlled trials and as little consensus as the ...

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission on the present and future of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) imposes an enormous and unevenly distributed burden in China. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission on the present and future of chronic obstructive ...

We read with great interest the comprehensive registry-based cohort study by Ali Bazarbachi and colleagues,1 which evaluated the temporal trends in post-transplantation outcomes for patients with ...

Many men are failing to thrive. Shorter life expectancies for men than for woman first emerged in the 19th century and the gap has continued to widen (albeit with geographical variations). Men have a ...

Emergency department overcrowding and access block are now among the most consequential patient-safety problems facing acute hospitals globally.1 The associated harm is measurable, dose-dependent, and ...

Jim Catto, co-leading author of the Lancet Series on men's health, was reluctant to be the subject of a profile, insisting it is more important to highlight what he is trying to accomplish: tackling ...

On my tenth visit, it took me two attempts to find the care and treatment centre (CTC) for people living with HIV/AIDS in Miono, Tanzania. The one-storey white building, where patients used to sit ...

With an opportunity to overturn Republican control of Congress, Democrats hope to win voters’ support by focusing on cuts to health-care programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.