We call it le Vidal”, Alexandre Loupy says. “It's a 4000-page book that my mother had, with all the medications…I said, okay, ...

Atopic dermatitis remains one of the most burdensome inflammatory skin diseases worldwide, with a substantial effect on ...

It has been 40 years since Purdue Pharma released OxyContin in the USA and—through its aggressive marketing, lobbying, and ...

My doctor told me to lose weight.” As a paediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist practising in the USA with a specialty in eating disorders, I hear a version of this sentence frequently when I ...

The global humanitarian crisis is escalating due to conflicts, climate-related disasters, and infection outbreaks.1 Recent ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains the standard of care for many patients with complex multivessel coronary artery disease because of its proven durability and long-term survival benefit.1 ...

In February, 2025, we reported in The Lancet the human toll of the UK's prolonged refusal to introduce newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy, despite overwhelming international evidence ...

Narumi Harada-Shoji and colleagues report extended follow-up of the J-START trial and show that adjunctive ultrasonography plus mammography reduced the cumulative incidence of stage 2 and later breast ...

The health of LGBTQ+ people has long been an indicator of wider advances in human rights and health equity. Modern LGBTQ+ ...

Most high-income countries, including those whose populations are ageing and shrinking, are reorganising their health and long-term care systems for efficiency, without fully integrating disaster ...

In their Comment, Shreenik Kundu and colleagues convincingly argue that ethical artificial intelligence (AI) could help ...

Despite decades of health-care digitalisation efforts worldwide, health information systems remain highly fragmented, with ...