Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are transforming the management of obesity and metabolic disease, with important implications across women’s health.

The trial did not show a clinical benefit of faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with IBS. These findings suggest that microbiota modulation alone might be insufficient for symptom improveme...

The tragic death, disability, and chaos wrought by the COVID-19 are fading from collective memory. The pandemic created a global health crisis that led to more than 7 million reported deaths, an estim...

The National University of Singapore (NUS)–Lancet Pandemic Readiness through Institutions, Mobilising Communities, and Equity (PRIME) Commission redefines pandemic readiness

Deep learning can identify contrast-enhancing brain tumours from non-contrast MRI. These models show promise as a triage or decision-support aid—for example, flagging studies in which post-contrast en...

Epilepsy increases sharply after symptomatic Alzheimer's disease onset in people with Down syndrome. The association of epilepsy with reduced survival and accelerated cognitive decline underscores the...

“Global health has traditionally focused on health promotion and preventing disease”, says Tim Baker, Associate Professor at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzan...

“Embedding rural voices in research and policy isn’t optional, it is essential to delivering equitable health care”, notes Anna Ugalde, Professor of Health Services Research at Deakin University in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and lead of the Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA) research programme. “A lot of our policy projects and key research projects are coming from urban health services, sometimes with very little consideration for what they mean for people who live outside of those areas.”

When Mangenda Kamara became pregnant as a teenager in Sierra Leone, her community and secondary school teachers made her feel “very discouraged”, she recalls. But her father, a teacher himself, always...