With cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and ...

With more big pledges expected in the coming months, the result of The Global Fund's eighth replenishment allayed the worst fears. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

One thing about South Asian populations is that we do have a very different presentation of diabetes, partly due to our genetics, partly due to migration pressures”, says Rohini Mathur, Professor and ...

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in Europe and North America and approximately 1% in Asia and South America.

The recent announcement of the Lancet Commission on disability and health offers a vital platform for advancing disability-inclusive health systems.1 However, it falls short by not explicitly naming ...

Mechanical ventilation highlights the fundamental paradox of critical care: it can be both life-saving and life-threatening. Mechanical ventilation provides a bridge to recovery for patients with ...

Sailesh Kotecha's family settled in London after being expelled from Uganda in 1972. Given his strong interest in human biology, he opted to study medicine. He was awarded a scholarship to study at ...

The Lancet journals publish papers, Series, and Commissions that explore health inequities and interventions to address them. These can be found on our Editorial Initiatives page and the related ...

Within the context of racial inequity, this two-part Collection presents research on socioeconomic deprivation, hospital care, maternal morbidity and mortality, communicable diseases, and more. Across ...

aDepartment of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA bGillings Humanitarian Health Initiative, University of North ...

The effects of Medicare funding cuts and the longest ever shutdown of the US Federal Government have slowed momentum to a standstill in cancer prevention, screening, and treatment, warned the ...

Globally, it is recognised that cardiovascular risk begins early in life, yet the epidemiology of childhood hypertension remains fragmented and contested. In The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, ...