According to a new analysis by Gallup, 11% of adults in the USA are currently using injectable GLP-1 or dual GIP–GLP-1 ...

Asthma affects more than 360 million people worldwide and remains one of the most common chronic diseases across the life course. Although effective therapies and evidence-based management strategies ...

In the wide spectrum of human disease, the biggest killer, and the largest cause of premature death worldwide, is heart ...

In 2016, all WHO Member States committed to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 The principal ...

Algorithmic bias can create and exacerbate health disparities. Famously, in 2019 Obermeyer and colleagues showed that an algorithm that used predicted health-care costs as a proxy for health-care ...

Ministers have met in Lisbon, Portugal, to help decide how to ensure that artificial intelligence in health care is used safely and responsibly. Talha Burki reports.

At least 78 children in Sindh, Pakistan, have been infected with HIV amid allegations of unsafe injection practices. Samaan Lateef reports.

A physician reviews a note generated by artificial intelligence (AI) from her morning clinic. The patient, a woman in her fifties with type 2 diabetes, had spent much of the consultation describing ...

In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), gains in child survival reveal an important reality: birth defects account for a growing share of deaths among children younger than 5 years and ...

Travel for health dates back to ancient times, but in the 19th century medical climatology emerged. The spa culture of the 18th century was largely displaced by a wider focus on the role of climate ...

The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing outlined an agenda recognising adolescence as a key period for achieving lasting health improvements.1 Along with the 2025 Countdown to ...

Rebecca Sers reports. More than 4 years of war have cast a long shadow over Ukraine's children. They are living under ...