A decade ago the psychologist and thriller writer Frank Tallis published The Sleep Room, a disturbing tale of a monomaniacal psychiatrist who subjected female patients to months of high dose sedatives ...

International Day of Play, on June 11, 2025, prompts us to consider the relationship between young people's opportunities for play and their mental health. Play is intrinsically motivated activity ...

It has long been acknowledged that the global health system needs reform. Although this system has improved public health, ...

T-cell therapy has shown remarkable clinical efficacy in haematological malignancies, currently representing a well ...

The assessment of Crohn's disease activity through endoscopy is a cornerstone of both clinical management and research. In The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Christopher Ma and colleagues ...

Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death and a major source of disability. Global deaths due to ...

The 25-year-old joint commitment among established providers of official development assistance (ODA) to invest in efforts ...

I have read many books on the changing tide of the public's relationship with vaccines, particularly around childhood ...

A couple of weeks after 5-year-old Hind Rajab called for help while trapped in a car under Israeli military fire in Gaza City ...

I read with deep respect and reflection Christine Laine and colleagues’ recent publication on predatory journals.1 I have been working in rural Maharashtra, India since 1976, conducting clinical ...

The cuts in WHO funding caused by the international situation and US withdrawal are of great concern. As behavioural scientists and public health professionals, we would like to highlight how WHO ...

The natural history of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is driven by complex interactions among virological, host, ...