The Asia–Pacific region has a high global burden of cardiovascular disease.1 The region, home to more than 60% of the world's population, spans the vast and diverse geographies from Oceania through ...

A rapidly evolving and uncertain situation has unfolded in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region following Israel's cross-border military strikes on Iran on June 13, 2025, and Iran's retaliatory ...

Diabetes is well known to be associated with an increased cardiovascular risk. Although much of the evidence has been ...

As an incoming resident doctor in the UK National Health Service, I am confronted by strike action due to the systemic under-investment in medical trainees, and the lived reality of entering clinical ...

We write as members of the international medical community to call upon the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) to uphold its commitment to ethical principles by supporting independent international ...

Among patients with refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, expedited intra-arrest transport did not significantly improve survival with neurologically favourable outcome. However, the study might ...

In Brian Burns and colleagues' Article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine,1 a prospective, multi-centre, open-label, randomised, superiority trial was conducted across Sydney, NSW, Australia ...

Krutika Kuppalli and Saad B Omer1 and the world media have not drawn attention to the fact that measles control in the USA (the third-largest country in the world by population) has been ...

A woman aged 62 years presents with shortness of breath. Her chest x-ray is interpreted as normal by an artificial intelligence (AI) triage system. The overworked resident, reassured by the system's ...

The week beginning Aug 4, 2025 was the most dangerous and tragic week of Robert F Kennedy Jr's tenure yet: a fatal CDC ...

Almost half of the world's population are women, and the latest stats show us that less than 50% of women and girls have power over their health-care decisions”, says Shakira Choonara, a passionate ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), is the most common aetiology of liver disease worldwide. MASLD is ...