Health, Medicine & Research
Among the many components that contribute to a healthy gut, prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics stand out as key players. These compounds play distinct yet interconnected roles in maintaining a ba...
20 years ago, The Lancet published an Editorial on reviving research into psychedelics for mental health conditions, observing that “the blanket ban on psychedelic drugs enforced in many countries con...
Complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs) and acute pyelonephritis remain major causes of hospitalisation worldwide and contribute substantially to antibiotic consumption and health-care costs.1 Th...
Vaccines remain one of the most impactful and cost-effective public health interventions. Decades of evidence from randomised controlled trials and epidemiological studies have shown the impact of vac...
Autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT) has remained central to the care of younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma since the publication of the first European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network tria...
Memories resurface. An unfamiliar virus. Deaths. A stricken cruise ship. Quarantines. Hastily arranged WHO press briefings. Scientists interviewed on radio and television about what is known—and, more...
Peru is expanding access to surgery and care for patients with cleft conditions in remote areas through intensive capacity-building led by local volunteers. Jacqui Thornton reports.
As part of a series on medicine in unusual settings, Talha Burki takes a look at medical practice in UK prisons.
“In Viet Nam, health challenges are rarely abstract”, says Thu-Anh Nguyen, Director of the University of Sydney Vietnam Institute (SVI) and Professor in Global Health at the University of Sydney, Aust...
For decades, the thymus has been regarded as a vestigial organ of childhood, essential for T-cell education early in life, but thought to lose relevance as it involutes into fatty tissue after adolesc...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI in medicine provokes important questions about the nature of clinical work performed by human practitioners as well as the limitations and ben...
Virologist and expert in influenza surveillance, pandemic preparedness, and infectious disease response. Born on July 21, 1948, in Emmetsburg, IA, USA, she died from glioblastoma on April 24, 2026, in...
We read with interest Marcello Ienca and colleagues’ Review on the increasing erosion of trust in health institutions.1 We also believe that restoring emotional engagement and resonance are essential,...
Marcello Ienca and colleagues1 in their Review identify a trust paradox in which rigorous institutions lose credibility while unaccountable voices gain it. We argue that large language model (LLM)-bas...
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, although invaluable for global health metrics, presents concerning estimates of life expectancy at birth for Monaco.1 Monaco...
Grant M A Wyper and colleagues highlight a discrepancy between the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 life expectancy estimates for the microstate of Monaco and loc...
I congratulate Steven J Frank and colleagues1 on the successful completion of their multi-institutional study comparing photons with protons for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, but many questio...
We thank David J Sher for the compliments on our phase 3 trial of intensity-modulated (photon) radiation therapy (IMRT) versus intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) for oropharyngeal cancer.1 A ke...
Cefepime–nacubactam and aztreonam–nacubactam are potential treatment options for Gram-negative cUTI and acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis, including infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant strai...
Decisions around which vaccines to use are increasingly important in the context of Gavi's country vaccine budgets. Robust metrics that allow comparison between vaccines are thus essential to inform d...