In April 2025, Kevin Hall took early retirement from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). “My life's work has been to ...

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a leading cause of premature death, affecting 1·00–1·14 per 1000 people with epilepsy annually.1 Identifying those at high risk or low risk of SUDEP is ...

Violence against women and children are egregious human rights violations. Globally, intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence,1 with nearly one in three women having been ...

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

Misdiagnosis remains a substantial patient safety challenge. Harmful diagnostic errors are estimated to occur in one in every 14 patients presenting to general medical hospitals.1 Generative ...

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

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.

Analgesia in the prehospital setting is a challenging but important priority for first responders. Retrospective military ...

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 Lancet Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and human health reveals that global proliferation of UPFs has become one ...

The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is damaging public health, fuelling chronic diseases worldwide, and ...

Dietary patterns high in ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have been associated with poor diet quality and health outcomes, and are displacing healthier dietary patterns—meals and dishes prepared with ...