As trust in the US federal health agencies drops, states have been creating their own public health networks. Roxanne Nelson reports.

In the past decade, deep learning has increasingly been applied to medical image interpretation, but without consensus as to whether medical practice should change. Many studies show artificial ...

In 2018, the first Lancet Series on preconception health, led by Judith Stephenson, argued that the health and nutrition of ...

Stroke remains a leading cause of disability worldwide, with more than 100 million people living with its consequences.1 Despite major advances in acute stroke care, access to sustained rehabilitation ...

The television series The Pitt, currently in its second season, brilliantly captures the emergency room (ER) of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital in all its stressful, raw, and deeply ...

The cheers of the home crowd escaped the hospital room through open windows. “Another four!”, my father cried in frustration. England had scored yet another boundary against what was proving to be a ...

It is almost 60 years since the original Wilson and Jungner1 criteria for evaluating population screening programmes were published, with the tenets presented having stood the test of time. Liver ...

Attacks on hospitals and a communications blackout in Iran threaten access to essential care and complicate the humanitarian response. Sharmila Devi reports.

Developmental biologist who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born on Oct 2, 1933 in Dippenhall, UK, he died on Oct 7, 2025, in Hardingham, UK, aged 92 years.

It is a sad reflection on health-care services and the societies they serve across the world that malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition remain a scourge for millions of children worldwide. The ...

Both eligibility and access criteria for liver transplantation (LT) have continued to evolve as indications broaden; ...

Since 2020, there has been a marked uptick in articles focused on links between cancer and climate change.1 As documented by a 2025 bibliometric analysis,1 major foci include: “climate change and ...