In The Lancet HIV, Mayara Secco Torres Silva and colleagues1 report results of a secondary analysis of the ImPrEP study, a ...

The battle against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) demands critical evaluation of antibiotic treatment protocols, particularly for respiratory tract infections (RTIs). The umbrella review in The Lancet ...

Chikungunya virus causes an emerging mosquito-borne viral infection that is endemic to much of Latin America, Africa, and south and southeast Asia. Chikungunya is prone to 8–15 year cycles of ...

Liver cirrhosis affects millions of patients worldwide and is a risk factor for infections and sepsis, which in turn lead to decompensation, organ failure, and death.1,2 Antimicrobial resistance ...

Weather and climate patterns play an intrinsic role in societal health, yet a comprehensive synthesis of specific hazard–mortality causes does not currently exist. Country-level health burdens are ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to understand how treatments for severe mental illness affect the risk of infection and severe outcomes from infectious diseases. Antipsychotics, in ...

Planetary health is an emerging field that emphasises that humans depend on a healthy Earth for survival and, conversely, that the sustainability of Earth systems is dependent on human behaviours. In ...

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The tragic rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, has once again highlighted the urgent need to address the safety of female health-care workers in ...

At the 66th World Health Assembly in 2013, WHO Member States adopted a resolution setting an ambitious global target of a 25% relative reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases ...

Coronary drug-coated balloons (DCBs) have been available worldwide for over a decade, with use and adoption perhaps ahead of ...

The use of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) has been well established for patients with heart failure and ...