With more big pledges expected in the coming months, the result of The Global Fund's eighth replenishment allayed the worst fears. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in Europe and North America and approximately 1% in Asia and South America.

The recent announcement of the Lancet Commission on disability and health offers a vital platform for advancing disability-inclusive health systems.1 However, it falls short by not explicitly naming ...

In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that more data lead to better models has driven unchecked reliance on synthetic data to augment training datasets. Although ...

Mechanical ventilation highlights the fundamental paradox of critical care: it can be both life-saving and life-threatening. Mechanical ventilation provides a bridge to recovery for patients with ...

The Lancet journals publish papers, Series, and Commissions that explore health inequities and interventions to address them. These can be found on our Editorial Initiatives page and the related ...

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Few topics are more emotive than child maltreatment. "Children, the most precious and vulnerable members of our societies, deserve closer attention to their care and education and better protection ...

Menopause is an inevitable life stage for half the the world’s population, but experiences vary hugely. Some women have few or no symptoms over the menopause transition while others have severe ...

Intensive Care Unit, North District Hospital, Sheung Shui, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China ...

Widespread failures during the COVID-19 pandemic at multiple levels worldwide have led to millions of preventable deaths and a reversal in progress towards sustainable development for many countries.

In late 2022, the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BQ.1 and XBB lineages, characterised by amino acid substitutions in the spike (S) protein that increase viral fitness, had become predominant in the western (BQ.1) ...