On July 17, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised marketing of five Juul e-cigarette products to adults, ...

Every day, we are exposed to radiation—when going through security scanners, during routine medical care, or directly from the environment. In each case, our radiation safety limits are based on ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma remains a substantial global public health concern, disproportionately affecting low-income and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa.1 Its burden in Africa is ...

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

An estimated 1·6 million adolescents (aged 10–19 years) were living with HIV in 2024, with adolescents having lower rates of ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Making a clinical diagnosis of dengue, Zika, or chikungunya is notoriously difficult. These arboviral diseases share ...

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, to parents who were doctors, Luciana Rodrigues Silva came to Bahia State aged 2 years, and from an ...

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 ...