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

Expectancy effects, encompassing both placebo and nocebo phenomena, are gaining increasing recognition across medical disciplines, including gastroenterology.1 Understanding psychological influences ...

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 ...

Since the escalation of the conflict in Gaza in October, 2023, neighbouring countries have remained closed to Palestinian refugees, citing the long-term implications of any large-scale movement.

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 ...

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

For more than two decades, the global community has united to fight the HIV pandemic, achieving remarkable progress. New HIV transmissions and AIDS-related deaths have dropped significantly, and ...

India's Central Bureau of Investigation alleges widespread bribery and collusion between government officials and private medical colleges, raising urgent concerns about the integrity of medical ...

Joan B Soriano had no particular aspiration to become a doctor, and no one in his family studied Medicine. But growing up in ...

A 4·6 billion-year-old patient of ill-defined sex is seen in the emergency room because of multiple, uncontrolled respiratory ...

President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes the largest cuts to Medicaid since its creation, with doctors warning that patients will suffer. Susan Jaffe reports.

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory conditions, with around 300 million people living with the condition ...