Tobacco use remains one of the most preventable causes of disease and death globally, yet it continues to impose enormous health and economic burdens on societies.1,2 While taxation and regulation ...

The Lancet Haematology's Adverse Events Reporting Series scrutinises an overlooked aspect of clinical trials, emphasising ...

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 ...

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

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

The COMPASSION-16 study by Xiaohua Wu and colleagues1 showed that cadonilimab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab as first-line treatment significantly improved overall survival; however, we ...

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 ...

Jason Westin, from the MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX, USA), presented the primary results of the randomised, ...

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 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 ...

When water and hospitals become targets of conflict, cholera becomes inevitable. Since April, 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in armed conflict that has systematically destroyed civilian infrastructure.