Fertility decline is a global trend but particularly a concern in the Western Pacific region. Since 2021, the total fertility rates in many parts of Asia have already fallen below 2.1 per woman, the ...

It's a film made by autistic people, not about autism”, Robin Elliot Knowles says. He is a member of the NeuroCultures Collective, a group of five neurodiverse artists who have collaborated with ...

The term apoplexy was first used by Hippocrates and his followers between the 5th and 4th centuries BC. In western European medicine, the word came to be used as a synonym for what current physicians ...

Parkinson's disease is the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world. Its prevalence has more than doubled in the past 25 years and will triple again by 2050. Behind these numbers lie ...

An estimated 60% of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop epilepsy or subclinical epileptiform activity over the course of the disease. New-onset seizures in cognitively healthy adults also ...

Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease are bidirectionally related. Epilepsy is often complicated by progressive cognitive impairments, and late-onset epilepsy (onset generally after 55–65 years of age) is ...

The following content was published by The Lancet Group and presented at the most recent International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa.

The Lancet Regional Health – Europe was launched in February, 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, during a period of profound disruption to health systems, research, and public trust in ...

We read with interest the Position Paper by Athol U Wells and colleagues concerning the paradigm shift in corticosteroid therapy for sarcoidosis.1 The search for specific targets, such as those ...

In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Christine R Jenkins and colleagues present the results of the Bisoprolol to Prevent Adverse Cardiac Events (PACE) study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

What began as an emergency measure during COVID-19 has grown into a statewide initiative towards universal health coverage. Dinesh C Sharma reports from India.

Doctors warn of continuing repression amid serious failures in the country's health system. Joe Parkin Daniels reports.