In this issue of The Lancet we feature 30 photographs selected from the many interesting images that were entered for this ...

For the subgroup of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who require biological DMARDs, sustained DMARD-free remission does not ...

The medical knowledge of Renaissance artists, honed through the study of classical texts and direct anatomical exploration ...

Locarno Treaties—a series of treaties between European countries after World War 1, negotiated in October, 1925, in Locarno, ...

Spatial repellents have been used as commercial household bite prevention products since the early 1900s, but significant ...

A huge criminal investigation is under way following accusations that fraud and substandard care have resulted in the deaths of several babies. Kaya Genc reports from Istanbul.

Coined in 1971 by Nobel laureate economist Herbert A Simon, the term “attention economy” describes attention as a most ...

Imagine stepping outside and each breath feels like a hazard—this situation is the grim reality for millions living in Lahore, Pakistan. The average air quality index (AQI) in Lahore from Oct 17 to ...

The hospital corridor, usually so busy with the incessant hum of life and death, now lay in a brief silence, as though the ...

Olivér Várhelyi's tempestuous confirmation process has seen pandemic preparedness and reproductive health stripped from his ...

With a shortage of 43 million health workers and half the global population without adequate access to essential health ...

Historically, sickle cell anaemia has been widely neglected within its global epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa. More than ...