Driven by high prices, lack of insurance, and a desire to lose weight, the proliferation of fake and falsified obesity drugs is prompting public health concern. Sophie Cousins reports.

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

Mrs A, a 46-year-old Indigenous woman, presented to a clinic in Callao, near Lima, Peru. Her husband accompanied her and did much of the talking. Reticent and with flat affect, she complained of ...

The country's new government has promised to prioritise primary care and public health spending after years of neglect. Samaan Lateef reports.

We thank the authors for their comments and interest in our Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and human health.

Women spend 9 years of their lives in poor health, which is 25% more than men.1 For women, these years are not confined to the end of life, but centred earlier in life from menarche up to menopause.1 ...

Changes in federal prescribing recommendations follow deliberate and transparent processes involving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, which normally include input from stakeholders ...

Social media is a popular recruitment tool for adolescent research as it can enable rapid, low-cost, and targeted enrolment. Australia's Online Safety Amendment Bill, which introduced a mandatory ...

Antipsychotic medicines are a key part of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Although they provide therapeutic ...

Non-inferiority trials are a valuable type of clinical trial to evaluate new treatments that might have differing benefits. Such trials are increasingly used, but have methodological challenges in ...

US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global HIV response has entered a second year of structural ...

In The Lancet Digital Health, a systematic review and meta-analysis by Alabed Samer and colleagues1 provides a clear picture about the current state of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) in ...