The scenario of chronic kidney disease (CKD) management has been transformed by the advent of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a class of drugs with benefits extending well beyond ...

For more than two decades, colonoscopy has been promoted as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Policy makers ...

Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention ...

For premenopausal women with ER-positive early breast cancer, even if chemotherapy or tamoxifen are given, OFS significantly reduces the 15-year risk of recurrence and death.

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The world needs WHO. This should be an unambiguous and uncontroversial statement. But it is not. There are signals that WHO's perceived value has eroded, and that its central position in the ...

Human-in-the-loop oversight is widely invoked as a safeguard against potential harm from artificial intelligence (AI) used in health care, yet it functions more as symbolic reassurance than ...

In 2026, cervical cancer remains a stark reminder of global health inequity, with women in low-income countries and ...

Explore the latest articles from The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, published online ahead of the monthly online issue ...

Whether estimating the probability that a disease is present or forecasting risk of deterioration,1 readmission,2 or death,3 most contemporary clinical artificial intelligence (AI) systems are ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

It is not every day that someone tells you they have “a passion for liver disease, especially end-stage liver disease”. But that is exactly how Patrizia Burra, a Co-Chair of the second European ...