Mass gatherings can attract several million people from across the world and pose huge public health challenges for the host ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infections in children younger than 5 years worldwide.1 Infants in their first 6 months of life ...

Although substantial variations in RSV seasonality were observed across provinces of China, our study identified distinct transmission zones with shared RSV circulating patterns. These findings could ...

The headline figures from WHO's 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, released at the World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on ...

Indigenous Dene Elder Francois Paulette from northern Canada talked about climate change at the 2015 Parliament of the World Regions and warned “Your way of life is killing my way of life.”1 He ended ...

Using prevalence data from the UK,1 we estimate that there are more than 10 000 university students with type 1 diabetes, out ...

A 67-year-old woman was referred to our department for investigation of a 3-year history of declining renal function—serum ...

It seems fitting that The Lancet, a medical journal that was founded in the country that pioneered coal-powered ...

Over the past three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has produced several iterations of global estimates for various disease metrics.1 The latest ...

Initiatives taken since 2014 to reduce out-of-pocket health expenditure and improve universal health coverage in the country ...

Despite tremendous advances in breast cancer research and treatment over the past three decades—leading to a reduction in breast cancer mortality of over 40% in some high-income countries—gross ...

A well organised pushback against human rights and gender equality is exacerbating marginalisation. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.