The global burden of influenza remains heavy, with an estimated 650,000 annual deaths worldwide and an average of 88,000 annual deaths in China, resulting in significant economic costs from healthcare ...

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

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

Overtreatment is considered harmful in terms of decreasing quality of life, wasting resources, and environmental damage.1–3 These risks are especially relevant when considering adjuvant chemotherapy ...

There were times I didn’t know why I survived sepsis, and even darker times when I wished I hadn’t. After surviving septic shock in May, 2021, after a colon perforation erupted from undiagnosed ...

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 ...

The 2020 port explosion in Beirut killed more than 250 people and injured 7000. 5 years later, many Beirutis still suffer physical and mental ill effects. Clotilde Bigot reports from Lebanon.

The COMPASSION-16 trial by Xiaohua Wu and colleagues addresses a crucial need in the management of advanced cervical cancer by evaluating cadonilimab, a novel bispecific antibody targeting PD-1 and ...

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

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent liver condition to date, with an estimated global prevalence of 38%.1 The progressive and inflammatory stages of ...

The Gaza Strip is facing a surge in paediatric meningitis cases amid total health system collapse. Since October, 2023, prolonged military assault and blockade have destroyed health, water, and ...

Soil-transmitted helminths are a group of parasitic intestinal worms that infect roughly 1·5 billion people globally. The most prevalent species are Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and ...