The early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are usually asymptomatic, with kidney function progressively and ...

Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man is one of the best books I have read about human health. It is also one of the toughest. Her account of the death of David, her father-in-law, from oesophageal ...

The Lancet Editorial1 regarding the far right and health takes a one-sided and oversimplified view and propagates multiple untruths regarding the current situation with the wellbeing of health workers ...

Thomas Yau and colleagues’ CheckMate 9DW trial has yielded unprecedented results, with nivolumab plus ipilimumab reaching an overall response rate of 36%, a median progression-free survival of 9·1 ...

A Lancet Editorial1 rightly highlighted the growing health threats posed by far-right populism. However, shockingly, it overlooked a crucial dimension central to the far right, namely an anti-feminist ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused major excess mortality worldwide. Although many innovations originated in the EU, pivotal vaccine, diagnostic, and therapeutic trials largely occurred outside the EU.

The World Report from Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy on patient debt1 highlights the difficult problems people often face when becoming ill in countries without strong social safety nets.

We thank Akhil Santhosh and Nihanthy D Sreenath and Liting Zhang and colleagues for their interest in our trial. The CheckMate 9DW trial showed clinically significant overall survival benefit for ...

Falling vaccination rates and a disjointed surveillance system have been blamed for a resurgence in measles in Canada. Paul ...

Adekemi Adeniyan is founder and Executive Director of Dentalcare Foundation, a non-profit organisation focused on oral health ...

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable ...

American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in ...