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

Sudan's women and children are paying the highest price for a war the world barely acknowledges. 12 million people have been ...

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 ...

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

The global health community faces a deepening challenge—not only from infectious diseases but also from a pandemic of ...

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

Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths ...

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

As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 ...

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 ...

Imagine a future where the global incident cases of liver cancer almost doubles, rising from 870 000 cases in 2022 to over 1·5 million in 2050. This scenario, and all the attendant harms to health and ...