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

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

GBD 2021 Suicide Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of suicide, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: ...

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

A healthy 57-year-old female patient presented to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) in February, 2025, with a 6-month history of a progressively enlarging wound on her left forearm. She ...

As early as 2005, Gritz and colleagues drew attention to clinical trialists missing the potential impact of tobacco use on cancer treatment outcomes, as smoking status was rarely recorded in cancer ...

In April, 2025, Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, appeared on the US television show 60 Minutes and suggested that all diseases could be curable with the help of ...

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

Each year, World Hepatitis Day reminds the global health community of its collective commitment to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Yet, as momentum grows toward ...

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

Global health financing is undergoing a sudden and monumental shift. After a start to the 21st century that saw unprecedented ...

Management of Crohn's disease is being transformed. A new head-to-head trial published in The Lancet shows superiority of ...