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 ...

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality globally. The number of new liver cancers will nearly double, from 0·87 million in 2022 to 1·52 ...

October 10 marks World Mental Health Day. This year's campaign theme, developed by WHO, United for Global Mental Health, and the World Federation for Mental Health, recognises that investment in ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to influence global health. Sima Barmania reports.

The World Federation of Neurology represents 125 member societies globally and aims to foster brain health and quality neurology worldwide. The term brain health has become an acknowledged term of ...

During his confirmation hearings, Robert F Kennedy Jr, now Head of US Health and Human Services (HHS), gave repeated reassurances to senators concerned about his credentials and beliefs. He promised ...

Merrill Singer, a medical anthropologist who explored the social and structural roots that shape people's lives, was not motivated by personal glory. Committed to collaboration, “he really exemplified ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has shown impressive efficacy in treating relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Nonetheless, its availability is substantially restricted by complex ...

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

We read with great interest the Seminar on peptic ulcer disease by Majid Almadi and colleagues1 published in The Lancet. The authors presented an algorithm for the empirical management of Helicobacter ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and research initiatives. Talha Burki reports.

Health is a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Yet social factors, such as loneliness, debt, and stress, have long been neglected in modern biomedical, disease-focused systems. There has ...