Born in Taixing near Shanghai, China, Jian Zhou's inspiration to become a doctor came from his maternal grandfather, who had ...

A healthy 57-year-old female patient presented to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) in February, 2025, with a 6-month history of a progressively enlarging wound on her left forearm. She ...

In April, 2025, Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, appeared on the US television show 60 Minutes and suggested that all diseases could be curable with the help of ...

As early as 2005, Gritz and colleagues drew attention to clinical trialists missing the potential impact of tobacco use on cancer treatment outcomes, as smoking status was rarely recorded in cancer ...

GBD 2021 Suicide Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of suicide, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

As part of our continuing series on medicine in unusual or unique circumstances, Talha Burki tackles the medicine of football ...

Each year, World Hepatitis Day reminds the global health community of its collective commitment to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Yet, as momentum grows toward ...

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

Management of Crohn's disease is being transformed. A new head-to-head trial published in The Lancet shows superiority of ...

Global health financing is undergoing a sudden and monumental shift. After a start to the 21st century that saw unprecedented ...

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.