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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Home to almost 1·3 billion people (16% of the world's population; 55% under the age of 20 years), sub-Saharan Africa is a region undergoing rapid demographic and socioeconomic transition, where ...

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 ...

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

The Gaza Strip is facing a surge in paediatric meningitis cases amid total health system collapse. Since October, 2023, prolonged military assault and blockade have destroyed health, water, and ...