The initial successes of anti-amyloid β monoclonal antibodies offer new perspectives for improving the clinical trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease for the first time since its identification in 1906.

Modelling research published in The Lancet uses data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 to project global, regional and national population changes over the next century.

Menopause is an inevitable life stage for half the the world’s population, but experiences vary hugely. Some women have few or no symptoms over the menopause transition while others have severe ...

An estimated 1.35 million people die every year from road traffic injuries (RTIs) and more than 50 million are injured or disabled despite a first decade of action and high-level global attention.

This 3-paper Series reviews the evidence about the increase in ultra-processed foods in diets globally and highlights the association with many non-communicable diseases. This rise in ultra-processed ...

Few topics are more emotive than child maltreatment. "Children, the most precious and vulnerable members of our societies, deserve closer attention to their care and education and better protection ...

In late 2022, the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BQ.1 and XBB lineages, characterised by amino acid substitutions in the spike (S) protein that increase viral fitness, had become predominant in the western (BQ.1) ...

About 30% of all research paper authors who submitted to the Lancet Group journals have opted in at submission and we currently have more than 6000 preprints posted on the site. Of those who opted in, ...

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A new analysis of the 2010 CRASH-2 study shows that tranexamic acid should be given as early as possible to bleeding trauma patients; if treatment is not given until three hours or later after injury, ...