Human-in-the-loop oversight is widely invoked as a safeguard against potential harm from artificial intelligence (AI) used in ...

The USA currently faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 2280 confirmed cases in 2025 and 910 additional cases ...

May 7 elections will likely see political change in Wales. With long waiting lists and concerns over staffing, what are the ...

For generations, harsh or humiliating language directed at children has been minimised as “just words”, framed as discipline, or justified as character-building. Many of us grew up in the UK learning, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

May is a time to elevate mental health awareness. In the USA, May is designated as Mental Health Awareness Month; Europe marks Mental Health Week (May 4–8); and the UK observes Mental Health Awareness ...

Nearly half of SMAs lack ICU beds. While post-arrival ICU outcomes were similar, residence in an SMA without ICUs was ...

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.

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 ...

Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention strategies. Reaching WHO vaccination and screening elimination targets or ...