Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to influence global health. Sima Barmania reports.

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.

A 3-hour film about mortality and familial atomisation in modern-day Germany, Dying is, if nothing else, bold ...

Management of Crohn's disease is being transformed. A new head-to-head trial published in The Lancet shows superiority of ...

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

In 2022, an estimated 11·7 million people were affected by chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), accounting for 23% of the global burden.1 This ...

We are witnessing a cascade of global crises on every front. War and devastation in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, and forgotten conflicts elsewhere that are rarely acknowledged. Climate-related disasters ...

Study offers an important advancement in understanding symptom dynamics during the menopause transition, particularly by challenging the dominance of menstrual-based staging. Although criteria such as ...

We thank Sara Osborne and colleagues for their interest in our trial.1 Ligelizumab phase 3 studies in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU)1 were done with a study design and in ...

Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often ...

Chikungunya virus disease, a debilitating mosquito-borne (Aedes spp) illness caused by an alphavirus, chikungunya virus, is usually endemic in regions with tropical climates.1 Since the beginning of ...

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 ...