Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

As part of our continuing series on medicine in unusual or unique circumstances, Talha Burki tackles the medicine of football ...

Management of Crohn's disease is being transformed. A new head-to-head trial published in The Lancet shows superiority of ...

We are witnessing a cascade of global crises on every front. War and devastation in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, and forgotten conflicts elsewhere that are rarely acknowledged. Climate-related disasters ...

The global burden of disease amenable to surgical intervention, such as trauma, cancer, and complications from childbirth, is substantial and growing. Despite this, there are currently gross ...

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

Chikungunya virus disease, a debilitating mosquito-borne (Aedes spp) illness caused by an alphavirus, chikungunya virus, is usually endemic in regions with tropical climates.1 Since the beginning of ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an under-recognised global health threat that affects over 250 million individuals, of whom 80% reside in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). HBV causes ...

Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often ...

Management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) includes multimodal therapy that depends on expert ...

Substantial resources directed to development assistance for health1 together with other forms of investments in health have ...