An estimated 1·6 million adolescents (aged 10–19 years) were living with HIV in 2024, with adolescents having lower rates of ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and five other medical and public health organisations are suing US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr, following his purge of the US Center ...

The field of plasma cell disorders has advanced primarily because of the collective efforts of members in cooperative research groups and international academia–industry collaborations. However, ...

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 of publications on this subject has remarkably increased, with each new ...

Overtreatment is considered harmful in terms of decreasing quality of life, wasting resources, and environmental damage.1–3 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...