An estimated 3–10% of patients with asthma are unable to reach full control with currently available inhaled therapies. In a large proportion of these patients, asthma can be driven in whole or in ...

A quarter of the way into the 21st century, emerging from the most consequential pandemic in 100 years, public health finds ...

The effect of chronic breathlessness on the lives of patients and their loved ones is tremendous, regardless of the ...

The 2018 Lancet Commission,1 After asthma: redefining airways diseases, made clear recommendations to improve outcomes for ...

Estimates of cancer burden and comprehensive analyses of cancer trends, risk factors, and future projections are important ...

The Advisory Committee on Vaccine Practices’ recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination prompt questions and concern.

In our continuing series on medicine in unusual circumstances, Talha Burki takes the temperature of health care in polar ...

The American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) described a good photograph as one “that communicates a fact, touches the ...

Multiple human rights and UN officials have raised grave concerns over violations of international law in the Gaza Strip (or Gaza) that have amounted to extermination and genocide.1–3 The Israeli ...

The Lancet recently published two important contributions on legal accountability.1,2 Both were triggered by the 2025 landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate ...

Type 1 diabetes remains a persistent health-care burden despite substantial advances in care. Its preclinical disease course ...

The Fourth UN High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) ...