Clinical trials are crucial for evidence generation on medicines. As of June, 2025, the European Union’s (EU) clinical trial ...

About two decades after the initial description of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, autoimmune encephalitis has expanded from being considered a neurological rarity to become one of the most rapidly ...

Much health advocacy is driven by single-issue activism. Communities with a common interest—from AIDS to child health, ...

The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health's report by Christopher J L Murray and colleagues uses ...

For a self-described “late bloomer”, Katrin “Kati” Andreasson certainly appears to have made up for lost time. Now the Edward F and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences ...

Patients increasingly use conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including for possible diagnoses, before seeing a ...

October 2026 marks 150 years since the publication of The Functions of the Brain,1 a landmark book by the Scottish neurologist David Ferrier (1843–1928) that gave experimental grounding to the ...

These are two lectures that form the Virchow Prize Lecture given by the authors in October, 2026. The first lecture was given ...

Changes to the formulary for 14 000 prisoners have been criticised as inconsistent with best practice. Paul Webster reports.

WHO has established a global target to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains one of the leading causes of cirrhosis, ...

On May 15, 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda declared outbreaks of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus. On May 17, 2026, the Director-General of WHO determined that the ...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access ...