Health, Medicine & Research
Notes from the Israeli frontier, part one
How the Trump administration started another forever war in the Middle East, and why millions of people can't see the evil of it.
Do you often feel wiped out, even after sleeping all night? You’re not the only one — lots of people deal with low energy every day. The sneaky part? Your daily habits could be the culprits, quietly d...
Improving outcomes for people with rare diseases is a major challenge, but it is possible. Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of rare disorders in which amyloid (misfolded protein deposits) accumula...
Homeopathy PlusRemedies for HysteriaadminHypersensitivity, facial flushing, gasping uncontrollable laughing, fainting, paralysis, weeping and shrieking – they’re all symptoms of hysteria and homeopath...
Your body's a busy place, full of tiny workers keeping you healthy. Some of these workers, like macrophages and mitochondria, do more than you might think. They're not just cleaning up germs or poweri...
The epidemiological challenges of the parasite have been compounded by recent cutbacks at US health agencies. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington DC.
Releasing millions of laboratory-raised insects into populated neighborhoods, on purpose, sounds like the premise of a science-fiction film. It is instead a real proposal from a company owned by Googl...
Cambodia is the first country in the Asia–Pacific to reach the 95–95–95 targets. There is hope that other countries might learn from its success. Sima Barmania reports from Bangkok and Phnom Penh.
During clinical work and research, we ask about the intricacies of the lives of others, narratives which they have often not shared with friends, colleagues, and neighbours. We ask not out of curiosit...
Richard Horton's Offline1 on the ten lessons for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health is well judged, but misses the political economy trap that chronic resource scarcity itse...
We commend the Lancet Editorial1 for highlighting the transformative potential of the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which marks a historic moment in tobacco control. By introducing a generational prohibi...
We read with interest the Article1 by Claudia Allemani and colleagues, which provides a landmark contribution to global cancer surveillance. Nevertheless, we have concerns regarding the representative...
We welcome the comments from Oscar Ramirez and colleagues, regarding the hospital-based surveillance system (VIGICANCER1) that includes 55–60% of Colombian children diagnosed with cancer. As VIGICANCE...
The TORPEdO trial1 represents a landmark contribution to oropharyngeal cancer management, demonstrating similar late quality-of-life outcomes between intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) and inte...
We thank Pietro De Luca and colleagues for their thoughtful letter and agree that surgical salvage after intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) is an important and underexplored question.
We read with interest the Article1 by Alana C Desai and colleagues on the results of the well designed, large-scale Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration (PUSH) trial, which evaluated a multicom...
We read with interest the Correspondence from Alba Martina Renzullo and Simone Benvenuto regarding results of the Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration (PUSH) trial,1 and share their goal of avo...
Solja T Nyberg and colleagues1 report a consistent dose–response association between adult obesity and severe infections across Finnish cohorts and UK Biobank, and estimate that worldwide 8·6% (95% CI...
Ayoub Boulares and Nicola Luigi Bragazzi raise four important methodological considerations regarding the association between adult obesity and severe infection risk reported in our study.1 Given the ...