A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm against hospital double doors leading to an oncology and haematology day ...

Proposals for huge cuts to NIH and CDC budgets have been rejected, to the relief of scientists. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Workers in Ukraine's embattled health-care system are reporting a mixture of resilience, hope, despondency, and anger amid mounting challenges as Russia's full-scale invasion of their country ...

Adnan Ali Hyder, Dean and Robert A Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, USA, was born in Karachi, Pakistan, into a family with a long history of medical practice. “There's a ...

Considering his contribution to the worlds of medicine and of letters, there are surprisingly few traces of The Lancet's founding Editor Thomas Wakley (1795–1862) in English literature. He receives a ...

Nuclear proliferation. Artificial intelligence. Energy. Populism. Venezuela. Russia. Gaza. Ukraine. Iran. Sudan. These were some of the themes of this year's Munich Security Conference, the grown-up ...

A staggering 840 million women and adolescent girls worldwide have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or both by an intimate partner or sexual violence by a non-partner at least once in ...

In a Kyiv maternity hospital, a premature baby sleeps inside a mobile incubator, his lungs still developing. A fragile network of tubes and monitors keeps him alive, delivering heat and medication to ...

This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

The reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms 3 months after completing ten AMHSP sessions indicates a slow but meaningful benefit of the programme and supports the potential of a low-intensity, ...

It was a busy casualty night in a paediatric ward of the largest tertiary care hospital in southern Sri Lanka. I was the ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are among the world's leading infectious threats, together responsible for over a million deaths each year, but these infections remain neglected by ...