The Comment by Patricia J García and colleagues,1 calling for the creation of a new health agency for Latin America, pays no justice to the role of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). For ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising globally, with a disproportionate impact on individuals in low-income and ...

Respiratory physician and pioneer in adolescent health. Born on Nov 2, 1948, in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, he died there from ...

Feb 27, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) coming into force. This legally binding international treaty, the first negotiated by WHO, rapidly ...

What does it mean for a computer to think like a doctor? This question has vexed physicians working on clinical reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) for more than 70 years. The first generation of ...

The Lancet has discovered that our editorial policies prior to the publication of the Clinical Picture Feeding dystonia, chorea, psychosis, and self-mutilation in an African patient with ...

Trust is an implicit cornerstone of global health. Trust between nations, organisations, health-care providers, and ...

HER2 (also known as ERBB2) is a key oncogene in breast cancer and is found in 2–4% of patients with non-small-cell lung ...

We thank our colleagues for their interest in our Article.1 We agree with Zaoqu Liu and colleagues that in addition to mortality assessment, quality of life and long-term functional outcomes are ...

A 34-year-old woman with a 2-year history of progressively worsening difficulties in walking, eating and swallowing, ...

The recent study by Holger Thiele and colleagues1 offers an extensive meta-analysis on the use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in acute myocardial infarction-related cardiogenic shock (AMICS).

As World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, 2025, approaches, global health authorities yet again find themselves at a crucial juncture in efforts to tackle the continuing global emergency of tuberculosis.