Driven by high prices, lack of insurance, and a desire to lose weight, the proliferation of fake and falsified obesity drugs is prompting public health concern. Sophie Cousins reports.

In April, 2025, we contributed, with many international colleagues, to the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, “Achieving gender justice for global health equity”1—the result ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

Women spend 9 years of their lives in poor health, which is 25% more than men.1 For women, these years are not confined to the end of life, but centred earlier in life from menarche up to menopause.1 ...

The country's new government has promised to prioritise primary care and public health spending after years of neglect. Samaan Lateef reports.

We thank the authors for their comments and interest in our Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and human health.

Mrs A, a 46-year-old Indigenous woman, presented to a clinic in Callao, near Lima, Peru. Her husband accompanied her and did much of the talking. Reticent and with flat affect, she complained of ...

Social media is a popular recruitment tool for adolescent research as it can enable rapid, low-cost, and targeted enrolment. Australia's Online Safety Amendment Bill, which introduced a mandatory ...

In The Lancet Digital Health, a systematic review and meta-analysis by Alabed Samer and colleagues1 provides a clear picture about the current state of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) in ...

Non-inferiority trials are a valuable type of clinical trial to evaluate new treatments that might have differing benefits. Such trials are increasingly used, but have methodological challenges in ...

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 ...

Sometimes the story can be told in statistics. India accounts for 13% of the global population, yet it accounts for 42% of global asthma mortality. Around 35 million Indians are thought to be living ...