Not many people are better equipped to dissect the food system than Stuart Gillespie. He has spent the past four decades ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues are a new class of compounds making their way into the European and US vaping markets, raising urgent questions about public health, regulation, and scientific research.1 ...

Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is ...

Worldwide, 3·9 million individuals have kidney failure requiring maintenance dialysis.1,2 Considerable resources—more than 7% ...

Language in reproductive health care, unlike elsewhere, has always defaulted to using the words woman and women due to the historic invisibility of pregnant transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse ...

Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of ...

The Review by Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer and colleagues1 on sepsis in patients who are immunocompromised is comprehensive and addresses a key and complex population. However, we would like to express ...

Humans are programmed to follow intellectual fashions. In the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the concept that inflammation is the core problem is dominant, whereas other key ...

An estimated 2·1 billion adults worldwide are affected by overweight and obesity, a figure projected to reach 3·8 billion by ...

Culture has been described as “a set of practices and behaviours defined by customs, habits, language, and geography that groups of individuals share”.1 Ethnic identity and national allegiance are key ...

Joël Le Scouarnec sexually assaulted hundreds of patients in his care. His victims are now calling for institutional changes in the wake of his conviction. Marianne Guenot reports.

The terms of the settlement have been roundly criticised by public health professionals. Paul Webster reports.