A 57-year-old woman with a 12-h history of fever and severe pain in her back, pelvis, and thighs attended our hospital. 24 h ...

WHO re-declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) making it ...

In 1970, with a degree from the medical school of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Professor Jens Juul Holst embarked on ...

Nicknamed “the beast”, Georgetown University star football player David Fajgenbaum had always envisioned a career in athletics. But when his mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma, Fajgenbaum changed ...

Tom Starzl and his team in Pittsburgh submitted a case report of a baboon-to-human liver transplant to The Lancet, I was a junior editor whose task it was to prepare his paper for publication.

Rabies remains a substantial global health challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings, where its impact is most profound. Despite the conceptual appeal of the One Health approach, which ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need to strengthen the European Health Union, as member states displayed uneven ...

The Lancet has recognised anthropogenic climate change as a major threat to human wellbeing since 1989.1 One of its published Comments called the climate and nature crisis an “indivisible global ...

In its recent eighth edition, published in 2023, the Lancet Countdown report1 on health and climate change used the expertise of 114 scientists and health professionals, representing 52 research ...

Overdiagnosis occurs when patients are diagnosed with a disease that would otherwise never have affected the quality or duration of their lives. This often happens unintentionally through well-meaning ...

Sudan is experiencing an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis after the outbreak of war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April, 2023. Although ...

Osteopenia was originally a qualitative term denoting bone that appeared to be less dense on radiographs. Since 1994, it has ...