On May 2, 2026, a cluster of severe respiratory illness among passengers aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic was reported to WHO, and a suspected hantavirus outbreak was identified. The vessel ...

aFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1H 9SH, UK The International Court of Justice ruled on Jan 26, 2024, that Israel must prevent its forces ...

These findings lend support to previous work assessing drug harms, and show how the improved scoring and weighting approach of MCDA increases the differentiation between the most and least harmful ...

East Asian never-smokers exhibit higher lung cancer incidence than their Western counterparts and account for roughly 40% of ...

The importance of skeletal muscle mass is increasingly being recognised in the medical field.1 The crucial roles of skeletal muscle have come to the forefront of public attention due to data on the ...

The scenario of chronic kidney disease (CKD) management has been transformed by the advent of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a class of drugs with benefits extending well beyond ...

“There is nothing living which does not breathe nor anything breathing which does not live”, wrote influential physician William Harvey in 1653. Taking an average of 7·5 million breaths per year—600 ...

Below are the latest The Lancet Oncology articles published ahead of the monthly online issue Breaking News from The Lancet Oncology is also shown below All research papers have been peer-reviewed and ...

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is the most comprehensive worldwide observational epidemiological study to date. Led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Opens in new window ...

Stigma is a powerful force for social exclusion. In a 2022 survey by the Global Mental Health Peer Network, 80% of more than 400 participants in 45 countries worldwide agreed that “stigma and ...