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 ...

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

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

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

A 3-hour film about mortality and familial atomisation in modern-day Germany, Dying is, if nothing else, bold ...

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 ...

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.

Clinical trials remain the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, yet they are frequently protracted and costly. More often ...

We are witnessing a cascade of global crises on every front. War and devastation in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, and forgotten conflicts elsewhere that are rarely acknowledged. Climate-related disasters ...

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: ...