When Sarah Baird appears on my computer screen, things are not quite as expected. For one thing, while she is Professor of ...

An update to the original 2016 Commission, this second iteration of The Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing presents crucial data on the challenges faced by adolescents and shares a ...

The Lancet published the first Commission on adolescent health, which argued for adolescence as a key stage of development in the life course that has been largely neglected by the global health ...

With 1·3 billion people aged 10–19 years worldwide,1 healthy, empowered adolescents are the fuel for stronger economies, resilient and equitable societies, and lasting peace. Investing in adolescent ...

The existence of specialised structures that allow a continuous exchange of CSF between different anatomical compartments at the brain–meningeal border is challenging conventional notions around ...

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has escalated into one of the most severe emergencies in recent history, with starvation used increasingly as a deliberate tactic of warfare. As of April, 2024, more ...

It's a double life”, says Simona Sacco, referring to her two research interests: stroke and headache. But stroke was “really ...

Following the availability of automobile vehicles in the late 19th century, obligatory driver's licenses were introduced, and health-related risks of driving were acknowledged. The first medical ...

By contrast with the paradigm shift in stroke treatment that we have seen in the past two decades with acute stroke ...

Genetics has been the steering force in establishing the biological framework for Alzheimer's disease research. At the end of ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare but fatal neurodegenerative disease that typically leads to muscle weakness, atrophy, and eventually respiratory failure within 2–4 years after symptom ...

Evolution built the brain of living beings for the wild, not the laboratory. And yet, neuroscience is a history of controlled experiments in laboratory settings. Labs are virtually pristine, variables ...