Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha ...

The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health's report by Christopher J L Murray and colleagues uses ...

Much health advocacy is driven by single-issue activism. Communities with a common interest—from AIDS to child health, ...

Immigration detention centres in Italy constitute a substantive health risk for detainees, including risks of infectious and non-communicable diseases and mental health problems1,2 A 2024 report3 ...

Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

South Africa is introducing a major change to public-sector asthma care, moving away from reliance on salbutamol-only relief ...

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on ...

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agents can now work through files and applications on a user's computer.1,2 By ...

American television series The Pitt may have redefined the popularity of medical drama, but hospitals have always provided a rich seam for creatives, whether their medium is page or screen. From ...

The therapeutic landscape of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has entered a new era, with pharmacological agents capable of improving liver histology now starting to emerge:1 ...

Clinical trials are crucial for evidence generation on medicines. As of June, 2025, the European Union’s (EU) clinical trial ...

Patients increasingly use conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including for possible diagnoses, before seeing a ...