Recognition of ventilator-induced lung injury led to the development of the baby lung concept by Luciano Gattinoni1 and to ...

Human-in-the-loop oversight is widely invoked as a safeguard against potential harm from artificial intelligence (AI) used in ...

Legislation imposing a ban on anyone in the UK born after 2008 from buying cigarettes and other tobacco products was always likely to be contentious. Predictably, The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill—shortly ...

For generations, harsh or humiliating language directed at children has been minimised as “just words”, framed as discipline, or justified as character-building. Many of us grew up in the UK learning, ...

The USA currently faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 2280 confirmed cases in 2025 and 910 additional cases ...

May 7 elections will likely see political change in Wales. With long waiting lists and concerns over staffing, what are the ...

In 2026, cervical cancer remains a stark reminder of global health inequity, with women in low-income countries and ...

The world needs WHO. This should be an unambiguous and uncontroversial statement. But it is not. There are signals that WHO's perceived value has eroded, and that its central position in the ...

It is not every day that someone tells you they have “a passion for liver disease, especially end-stage liver disease”. But that is exactly how Patrizia Burra, a Co-Chair of the second European ...

Whether estimating the probability that a disease is present or forecasting risk of deterioration,1 readmission,2 or death,3 most contemporary clinical artificial intelligence (AI) systems are ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

Across the WHO European region, liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer are responsible for hundreds of deaths each ...