On May 5, 2025, the Global Initiative For Asthma (GINA) published the 2026 update to their Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. On the same date, an online discussion hosted by GINA ...

Technological innovations in health care—including artificial intelligence (AI)—have rapidly transformed core components of oncology care. With public health-care systems under substantial financial ...

Despite recent advances in immunotherapy and targeted therapy, most patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) continue to have disease progression and develop resistance to current treatments.

In The Lancet in 1971, Julian Tudor Hart gave medicine one of its most important insights: the availability of medical care ...

On May 16, 2026, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took the unprecedented step of declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) without first convening an ...

On May 15, 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in Ituri Province, affecting three health ...

An athletics event at which participants are permitted to use performance-enhancing drugs has drawn criticism from sports scientists and anti-doping agencies. Talha Burki reports.

The newly declared outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DR Congo and Uganda once again exposes the fragility of epidemic preparedness across sub-Saharan Africa.1 As of May 15, ...

We thank Amit Kalra and colleagues for engaging with the SCIENCE study1 and welcome the opportunity to respond. We agree that an elbow-specific patient-reported outcome measure for children with ...

In their Correspondence, Bilal Irfan and colleagues highlight broad challenges facing Syria's health system.1 We emphasise the need for nuanced, evidence-driven analysis, grounded in the current ...

The interventions can safely and effectively reduce antibiotic use among patients with ARIs in village clinics in rural China. Future implementation efforts should further examine the barriers and ...

A lack of vaccines, diagnostics, and basic public health capacity is raising fears over the scale of the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo and Uganda. John Agaba reports from Kampala.