Overtreatment is considered harmful in terms of decreasing quality of life, wasting resources, and environmental damage.1–3 ...

Sudan's women and children are paying the highest price for a war the world barely acknowledges. 12 million people have been ...

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health lucidly highlighted how attacks on the concept of gender, and on gender equality and women's rights more broadly, are not new. As Sarah Hawkes and her ...

As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 ...

The landscape of medical artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing unprecedented momentum. Since January, 2023, the number ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

The Trump administration's sweeping deregulation, funding cuts, and layoffs are undermining workplace respiratory health ...

As part of our continuing series on medicine in unusual or unique circumstances, Talha Burki tackles the medicine of football ...

Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths ...

Imagine a future where the global incident cases of liver cancer almost doubles, rising from 870 000 cases in 2022 to over ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death globally and remains a major public health ...

Born in Taixing near Shanghai, China, Jian Zhou's inspiration to become a doctor came from his maternal grandfather, who had ...