I spent an afternoon at Keats House in Hampstead, London, UK. John Keats (1795–1821) began an apprenticeship to a ...

Trump's ban on gender-affirming surgery and medication for minors is clashing with anti-discrimination law. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true. Was the virus transmitted via surfaces or airborne particles? Which drugs ...

The spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder of the AKDN. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec 13, 1936, he ...

Syria's health-care system has been devastated over a past decade of armed conflict, compounded by long-standing, systematic neglect under the Assad dictatorship. As a result, many populations have ...

Cancer screening tests can be divided into early detection and preventive tests.1 Early-detection tests (eg, mammography for ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many states failed to meet their human rights obligations and commitments to equity, as Lawrence O Gostin and colleagues elaborate.1 Surprisingly, the authors omit rights ...

March marks Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, with the aim of raising awareness of the third most common cancer and the ...

Countries with long health legacies from nuclear testing are leading calls for new assessments as global nuclear tensions rise. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

A recent Lancet Editorial asserts that philanthropy in health is here to stay.1 Are these private actors altering the evolution of global and national institutions in ways that undermine planetary ...

Population-based cancer registries are the benchmark for assessing a country's cancer burden.1 Cancer registries across the globe play a crucial role in providing valuable data1 for monitoring ...

We thank Diego S Silva and Oliver Razum and for the thoughtful and thorough analysis arguing that Australia's border closing to its own citizens during much of the COVID-19 pandemic was indeed a ...