Lebanon's already weakened health system is overwhelmed, under-resourced, and increasingly attacked by the Israeli army. Amelie David reports from Lebanon.

Trauma remains the leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents worldwide, yet paediatric trauma care is often under-prioritised in health system development.1–3 This neglect ...

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to ...

There is a folder on my computer that I avoid as much as possible. It is called Health and it holds the clinical letters and other documents from all the consultants and other health-care ...

We thank Chris Newman for the thoughtful input. We share the interest in ensuring that the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change is tracking actions that support rapid greenhouse gas emissions ...

It is official: global warming is accelerating. In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters in March, 2026, Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf strip out the noise of natural variability in ...

We thank Gang Lv and colleagues for the response to our study.1 We agree that minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring could help to optimise the treatment of mantle-cell lymphoma with ibrutinib and ...

The 2025 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the accelerating human toll of climate inaction and documents record heat-related deaths, widespread food insecurity, and intensifying ...

WHO's approval of the RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) malaria vaccine in 2021 marked a milestone in global public health. It represented not only the first vaccine approved against any parasitic human disease ...

In Greek mythology, Atlas is the powerful Titan condemned by Zeus to eternally bear the celestial spheres—a profound symbol of endurance and strength. These very virtues are necessitated in patients ...

The ENO Breathe programme can improve HRQOL, breathlessness, anxiety, and respiratory symptoms in people with long COVID and breathlessness. ENO Breathe could be tested in other major causes of ...

Proportionally more children undergo trauma laparotomy in lower-resource settings than in higher-resource settings; however, their mortality risk is substantially higher. Marked variation exists in ...