Tobacco use remains one of the most preventable causes of disease and death globally, yet it continues to impose enormous health and economic burdens on societies.1,2 While taxation and regulation ...

An 89-year-old White male underwent routine cataract surgery and insertion of two iStent Inject microstents (Glaukos ...

The Lancet Haematology's Adverse Events Reporting Series scrutinises an overlooked aspect of clinical trials, emphasising ...

An estimated 1·6 million adolescents (aged 10–19 years) were living with HIV in 2024, with adolescents having lower rates of ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and five other medical and public health organisations are suing US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr, following his purge of the US Center ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...