Sudan's women and children are paying the highest price for a war the world barely acknowledges. 12 million people have been ...

The global burden of influenza remains heavy, with an estimated 650,000 annual deaths worldwide and an average of 88,000 annual deaths in China, resulting in significant economic costs from healthcare ...

As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 ...

The Trump administration's sweeping deregulation, funding cuts, and layoffs are undermining workplace respiratory health ...

Overtreatment is considered harmful in terms of decreasing quality of life, wasting resources, and environmental damage.1–3 These risks are especially relevant when considering adjuvant chemotherapy ...

The landscape of medical artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing unprecedented momentum. Since January, 2023, the number ...

Imagine a future where the global incident cases of liver cancer almost doubles, rising from 870 000 cases in 2022 to over ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death globally and remains a major public health ...

Born in Taixing near Shanghai, China, Jian Zhou's inspiration to become a doctor came from his maternal grandfather, who had ...

Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths ...

The global health community faces a deepening challenge—not only from infectious diseases but also from a pandemic of ...

Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...