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

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

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

Changes to the formulary for 14 000 prisoners have been criticised as inconsistent with best practice. Paul Webster reports.

These are two lectures that form the Virchow Prize Lecture given by the authors in October, 2026. The first lecture was given ...

On May 15, 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda declared outbreaks of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus. On May 17, 2026, the Director-General of WHO determined that the ...

The theme of this year's World Mental Health Day, held on Oct 10, is Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change. On its website, WHO states that the voices of people with lived experience ...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access ...

Countries such as the Solomon Islands and Fiji have pioneered mass drug administration for the disease. Sophie Cousins reports.

Volatile and prohibitive immigration rules are raising concerns about staffing health and social care across the USA. Roxanne Nelson reports.

Activists hold a day of action after mounting concerns over the contract between the NHS and the tech company. Talha Burki reports.

Anne-Marie Cockburn is convinced that punitive drug policies led to her daughter Martha's death in 2013. “As a society, we're treating drug use as a moral failing rather than the health issue it is.