The question of whether prehospital emergency anaesthesia and intubation improves survival in patients with major trauma has ...

Despite the availability of effective antihypertensive therapies, global blood pressure control rates remain unacceptably low. Contributing factors, such as low treatment adherence, therapeutic ...

Unmet needs in hepatology continue to evolve globally. While the burden of chronic viral hepatitis continues to decline due to improved treatment and prevention, steatotic liver disease is emerging as ...

The recent presentation of the long-term results of the JCOG0802 phase 3 trial has sparked discussion within the international thoracic surgical community. Initial 5-year results in 2022 reported a ...

Obesity is associated with multiple non-communicable diseases (such as type 2 diabetes, various cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases, and some cancers) and detrimental psychosocial consequences ...

In Western Australia, LotteryWest directly funds the Health Promotion Agency, Healthway.” However we now understand this statement is factually incorrect. We have changed the article to better reflect ...

In the USA, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the nation's largest anti-hunger programme—serves more than 40 million individuals and is undergoing unprecedented retrenchment. In ...

With the spike in Affordable Care Act health insurance costs, around 4·8 million people could lose coverage. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

The US military strikes on Venezuela on Jan 3, 2026 and seizure of the country's President Nicolás Maduro represent a profound shock to a health system already in collapse. With US President Donald ...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed HIV-1 infection into a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. For more than two decades, the standard regimen has been a ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has become the leading cause of liver disease worldwide, affecting one in three people.1,2 The inflammatory form of MASLD, namely ...

The UK National Health Service (NHS) will meet all three core cancer standards by 2029, according to a new National Cancer Plan for England, published on Feb 4, 2026. This is despite national ...