Progress towards The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery's 2030 targets has been too slow and too patchy, particularly in low ...

Variation in PICU mortality by ethnicity and area-level deprivation highlights the importance of further investigation into ...

Despite promising to help alleviate poverty, World Bank investments in private hospitals in east Africa have resulted in catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for many. Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy for ...

A new report describes how huge amounts of money are supporting anti-gender and anti-rights groups and projects. Rebekka Park reports.

One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to secure clean water and good sanitation for all by 2030, in recognition of ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

The Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) estimated that 828 million people worldwide aged 18 years or older had diabetes in 2022—considerably more than estimates of the ...

The Lancet on the anti-IL-5 antibody mepolizumab in individuals with allergic asthma, evidence has accumulated that the ...

The convergence of multiple crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical fragmentation, climate shocks, digital disruption, and economic precarity—has exposed the fragility and limitations of ...

Public trust in scientific integrity is eroded by the politicisation of institutions under Donald Trump's US presidency. The implications extend far beyond American borders, striking at the core of ...

A staggering £10·3 billion is lost from the UK economy every year due to people dying from cancer, according to a recent ...

Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, resulting in more than 1·25 million deaths in 2023 alone.1 During ...