A 57-year-old woman with a 12-h history of fever and severe pain in her back, pelvis, and thighs attended our hospital. 24 h ...

WHO re-declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) making it ...

In 1970, with a degree from the medical school of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Professor Jens Juul Holst embarked on ...

We thank Nicholas Brink and Matthew F Chersich1 for raising important points regarding the potential competing interest that health professionals could have if their pension funds invest in the fossil ...

We thank Renée Street and Caradee Y Wright for engaging with our latest report, and for highlighting the importance of including expertise and experience of researchers and authors from low-income and ...

The Lancet Countdown calls for increased health sector leadership in the climate crisis.1 However, it is silent about holding researchers accountable for their links—or perceived links—to the fossil ...

Nicknamed “the beast”, Georgetown University star football player David Fajgenbaum had always envisioned a career in athletics. But when his mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma, Fajgenbaum changed ...

Rabies remains a substantial global health challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings, where its impact is most profound. Despite the conceptual appeal of the One Health approach, which ...

Tom Starzl and his team in Pittsburgh submitted a case report of a baboon-to-human liver transplant to The Lancet, I was a junior editor whose task it was to prepare his paper for publication.

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need to strengthen the European Health Union, as member states displayed uneven ...

Overdiagnosis occurs when patients are diagnosed with a disease that would otherwise never have affected the quality or duration of their lives. This often happens unintentionally through well-meaning ...

Brown L and colleagues1 discuss the association between various mental health conditions and the menopause transition, but eating disorders were not included in this discussion. This decision was ...