Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

Simple oral direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has transformed clinical management and paved the way for elimination.1 The first pan-genotypic fixed-dose ...

We agree with Eric J Suba that current global inequalities in cervical cancer burden are driven largely by unequal access to effective screening programmes. This point was highlighted by Brisson and ...

American television series The Pitt may have redefined the popularity of medical drama, but hospitals have always provided a rich seam for creatives, whether their medium is page or screen. From ...

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on ...

We thank Yasuhiro Kotera for commenting on our Article reporting the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023.1 ...

Mental Disorder Collaborators provide an indispensable update on the global burden of mental disorders, estimating 1·17 billion prevalent cases in 2023 and identifying mental disorders as the leading ...

We read Anwen Xiong and colleagues’ study with great interest.1 Despite the established first-line role of immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha ...

Clinical trials are crucial for evidence generation on medicines. As of June, 2025, the European Union’s (EU) clinical trial ...

About two decades after the initial description of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, autoimmune encephalitis has expanded from being considered a neurological rarity to become one of the most rapidly ...

October 2026 marks 150 years since the publication of The Functions of the Brain,1 a landmark book by the Scottish neurologist David Ferrier (1843–1928) that gave experimental grounding to the ...