We are facing a new threat to global health. The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear to health-care providers, public health practitioners, policy makers, and communities that pathogens do not respect ...

Acute pulmonary embolism is rare during childhood and adolescence. The high pulmonary embolism-related fatality among ...

In this issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Michelle M Chen and colleagues1 report their findings on trends in the incidence of thyroid cancer in the USA from 1975 to 2019. The authors show ...

The discovery and development of GLP-1 receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes and obesity is a bench-to-bedside success story.1 Multiple GLP-1 receptor agonists are now in clinical use, such as ...

Afghanistan's de facto authorities have made the alarming decision to ban women from studying nursing and midwifery.1 This policy, along with the broader ban on girls completing education beyond grade ...

Against all odds, in a victory of data over opinion, and after the determined work of the Health and Social Care Select ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) for mammography is an early exemplar of the integration of AI systems into clinical pathways and ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a manifestation of structural violence, the process through which societies ...

Since the first, seminal randomised controlled trial (RCT) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in 1955,1 the central tenets for high-quality clinical trials have been recognised as robust and ...

Looking for the name of Marcel Proust on search engines, it seems that the centenary of his death (1922) has gone unnoticed by medical doctors. Several essays on his illness have already been ...

Existing treatment criteria for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are mainly based on data from observational studies, such as the REVEAL study from Taiwan, which was initiated in the early ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer predicts more than 35 million new cancer cases in 2050, a 77% increase from 2022. The greatest burden will fall on low-income and middle-income ...