Algorithmic bias can create and exacerbate health disparities. Famously, in 2019 Obermeyer and colleagues showed that an algorithm that used predicted health-care costs as a proxy for health-care ...

At least 78 children in Sindh, Pakistan, have been infected with HIV amid allegations of unsafe injection practices. Samaan Lateef reports.

In the wide spectrum of human disease, the biggest killer, and the largest cause of premature death worldwide, is heart ...

The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing outlined an agenda recognising adolescence as a key period for achieving lasting health improvements.1 Along with the 2025 Countdown to ...

Travel for health dates back to ancient times, but in the 19th century medical climatology emerged. The spa culture of the 18th century was largely displaced by a wider focus on the role of climate ...

Christine Kafando was the first person to talk publicly about living with HIV in Burkina Faso and helped to set up one of the first community organisations for people living with HIV in the landlocked ...

Despite short-term costs to economic development, long-term human prosperity is not possible in an ecologically unstable planet. Efforts to preserve and stabilise ecosystems should function as public ...

Health and humanitarian systems are struggling to cope with the thousands of people injured and displaced. Joe Parkin Daniels reports.

In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), gains in child survival reveal an important reality: birth defects account for a growing share of deaths among children younger than 5 years and ...

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation organised a multidisciplinary committee to develop this Position Paper to outline current ...

When consultant colorectal surgeon Tamzin Cuming took part in a short film challenging prejudice about women in the workforce ...

Ministers have met in Lisbon, Portugal, to help decide how to ensure that artificial intelligence in health care is used safely and responsibly. Talha Burki reports.