The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative promise for public health. For China, with its uniquely centralised public health infrastructure and access to vast, national ...

Tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy diet (such as consumption of sugary drinks) are leading preventable drivers of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Despite a decrease in smoking prevalence among people ...

On Oct 23, 2025, at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country's 15th 5-year plan, 2026–30, was announced. The final plan is to be unveiled in March 2026, but the ...

A cancer diagnosis does not leave much room for humour, but this year I saw three stand-up comedians who found plenty to talk about and took to the stage to share it with London audiences.

The Italian National Health Service is founded on universal coverage and equal access to care.1 In this context, ...

Non-invasive and targeted transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) treatments combined with systemically administered ...

A stone's throw from Dublin's Merrion Square, where medical luminaries such as William Stokes and William Wilde plied their ...

Prostate cancer incidence is predicted to double to 2·9 million cases by 2040. Men diagnosed with clinically significant ...

We read with interest the Article by Daniel Ma and colleagues in The Lancet Oncology.1 Ma and colleagues should be ...

I once believed that healing meant curing—that a good doctor must fight relentlessly against disease, offering every patient ...

The Article by Tamim Niazi and colleagues1 on the Prostate Cancer Study 9 (PCS-9) investigated stereotactic body radiotherapy ...

Women with gestational diabetes continue to have adverse pregnancy outcomes that are often related to hyperglycaemia. Maternal glucose is the major determinant of increased birthweight and there are ...