World Hepatitis Day is marked each year on July 28. Last year, WHO's Global Hepatitis Report 2024 made clear the enormous burden of viral hepatitis: more than 2 million people are newly infected with ...

Each year, 1·3 million people die from viral hepatitis, and mortality is increasing.1 This World Hepatitis Day, all stakeholders must break down the barriers to hepatitis elimination, including ending ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an under-recognised global health threat that affects over 250 million individuals, of whom 80% reside in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). HBV causes ...

Chikungunya virus disease, a debilitating mosquito-borne (Aedes spp) illness caused by an alphavirus, chikungunya virus, is usually endemic in regions with tropical climates.1 Since the beginning of ...

Management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) includes multimodal therapy that depends on expert ...

Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often than commonly thought, clinical trials are also uninformative.1 Artificial ...

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

Expectancy effects, encompassing both placebo and nocebo phenomena, are gaining increasing recognition across medical disciplines, including gastroenterology.1 Understanding psychological influences ...

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 ...

Since the escalation of the conflict in Gaza in October, 2023, neighbouring countries have remained closed to Palestinian refugees, citing the long-term implications of any large-scale movement.

The World Federation of Neurology represents 125 member societies globally and aims to foster brain health and quality neurology worldwide. The term brain health has become an acknowledged term of ...

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Jean Claude Katte and colleagues report the results of the cross-sectional ...