This is a correction paper in The Lancet. The spelling of the surname Hardman was corrected in the obituary for William H. Foege. The correction is to the article by McLellan F. William H Foege, published in Lancet 2026; 407:670. This change was made in the online version as of February 19, 2026. The document serves as a notice of an error in the previous text. It does not contain any further details about the contents of the obituary. This is purely a technical spelling correction.[1]