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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several therapeutic advances have been achieved over the past two decades for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The expanding ...
In January, 2025, six wildfires broke out and spread rapidly across the greater Los Angeles region in California, USA. Fanned by the strong Santa Ana winds, these raging infernos have caused ...
We read with interest the article by Marie Lund and colleagues published in The Lancet Oncology investigating the association ...
A 58-year-old male patient presented to the dermatology clinic at West China Hospital of Sichuan University (Chengdu, Sichuan ...
Against all odds, in a victory of data over opinion, and after the determined work of the Health and Social Care Select ...
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including abuse, neglect, and household challenges, have harmful implications for long-term health and mental health outcomes.1 Indeed, ACEs are one ...
All physicians are faced with the challenge of how to help patients with no approved therapies for their diseases. What are ...
Believers in haematological destiny would be intrigued to know that Cristóbal Frutos was born on May 28, which is World Blood Cancer Day. Still a few years younger than 40 years, he is the transplant ...