Not many people are better equipped to dissect the food system than Stuart Gillespie. He has spent the past four decades ...

Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues are a new class of compounds making their way into the European and US vaping markets, raising urgent questions about public health, regulation, and scientific research.1 ...

Humans are programmed to follow intellectual fashions. In the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the concept that inflammation is the core problem is dominant, whereas other key ...

The Review by Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer and colleagues1 on sepsis in patients who are immunocompromised is comprehensive and addresses a key and complex population. However, we would like to express ...

Worldwide, 3·9 million individuals have kidney failure requiring maintenance dialysis.1,2 Considerable resources—more than 7% ...

Language in reproductive health care, unlike elsewhere, has always defaulted to using the words woman and women due to the historic invisibility of pregnant transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse ...

Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of ...

With over 350 million adults worldwide expected to have metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) by 2050,1 half with stage 2 or 3 liver fibrosis, there remains an unmet need for ...

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how ill-prepared the world was to detect and respond to global health threats. With over 7·1 million lives lost,1 more than US$4·7 trillion in economic damage,2 profound ...

An estimated 2·1 billion adults worldwide are affected by overweight and obesity, a figure projected to reach 3·8 billion by ...