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

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

WHO has established a global target to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains one of the leading causes of cirrhosis, ...

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

We thank João Martins and Aneel Bhangu, Hermann Brenner and colleagues, and Uri Ladabaum and colleagues for their interesting comments on our report from the NordICC trial.1 We agree with Martins and ...

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 ...

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.

Despite major advancements in antiretroviral therapy (ART), a substantial mortality gap remains for adolescents living with HIV compared with the general population.1 Adolescents’ access to ART lags ...

Michal F Kaminski and colleagues report that colonoscopy screening reduced colorectal cancer incidence, but not mortality, during a 13-year follow-up.1 The response from the public health field will ...

The 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results should concern the health community.1 PISA does not measure health literacy directly, but it assesses several cognitive ...

In this Clinical Rounds, we present a case of neuroborreliosis in a man aged 59 years who initially complained of headache, ...

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 ...