Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often than commonly thought, clinical trials are also uninformative.1 Artificial ...

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

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 ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

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

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.

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

Managing type 1 diabetes has a substantial impact on quality of life and psychological health. Indeed, insulin overdosing can lead to hypoglycaemia, which has potentially damaging consequences, and ...

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 ...

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

Health is a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Yet social factors, such as loneliness, debt, and stress, have ...