In medical training, we are taught to fear forgetting. Forgetting diagnostic criteria. Forgetting medication doses. Forgetting the algorithms that promise clarity when situations feel uncertain. Exams ...

These findings, alongside the linked systematic review and meta-analysis of antiviral treatment efficacy, supported the 2024 WHO guidelines expansion of treatment criteria to include individuals with ...

In 2024, the International Diabetes Federation published a position statement supporting the 1 h 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) as an alternative to the conventional 2 h testing protocol and ...

mCommunicable Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda nNon-Communicable Diseases Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda ...

aDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Mass General Brigham, Division of Health Services Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA bDepartment of Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown ...

As today's researchers face a tectonic shift in the foundations of global health, it is instructive to consider another time when international health research had to be re-established on a new ...

Autistic young people are at increased risk of mental health difficulties than their non-autistic peers.1,2 Beyond innate neurodevelopmental differences, environmental factors, especially the school ...

Contrary to English and Scottish Government policies, which convey an expectation that people who might be neurodivergent can request an assessment through the National Health Service (NHS), services ...

We seek to build on the work of Sarah Hawkes and colleagues in the Lancet Commission on gender and global health1 by applying an intersectional lens that brings increased focus to gender justice for ...

World Sleep Day, observed this year on March 13, calls for recognition of the central role of sleep in physical and mental health and for the promotion of healthy sleep habits. For children in ...

Provisions around data sharing and other conditions in new bilateral deals between the USA and several African countries have drawn criticisms. Gilbert Nakweya reports.

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...