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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Plastics permeate the environments in which we grow, learn, and play; they line our streets, flow through waterways, leach into soils, and circulate in the air.1–3 They are woven into our clothing, ...

Bénédicte Nobile and Philippe Courtet's critique of our Correspondence1 represents a textbook case of genocide denial and selective moral disengagement. Our Correspondence was based on peer-reviewed ...

The response by Zion Hagay and Yossi Walfisch of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) to our previous Correspondence1 reinforces rather than refutes our central concern: the absence of a truly ...

An independent UN Commission has judged Israel to have committed four of five proscribed genocidal acts in the last 2 years, with 64 000 Palestinian children killed or maimed. Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old ...