A cancer diagnosis does not leave much room for humour, but this year I saw three stand-up comedians who found plenty to talk about and took to the stage to share it with London audiences.

The Italian National Health Service is founded on universal coverage and equal access to care.1 In this context, ...

Non-invasive and targeted transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) treatments combined with systemically administered ...

A stone's throw from Dublin's Merrion Square, where medical luminaries such as William Stokes and William Wilde plied their ...

Prostate cancer incidence is predicted to double to 2·9 million cases by 2040. Men diagnosed with clinically significant ...

We read with interest the Article by Daniel Ma and colleagues in The Lancet Oncology.1 Ma and colleagues should be ...

I once believed that healing meant curing—that a good doctor must fight relentlessly against disease, offering every patient ...

The Article by Tamim Niazi and colleagues1 on the Prostate Cancer Study 9 (PCS-9) investigated stereotactic body radiotherapy ...

Women with gestational diabetes continue to have adverse pregnancy outcomes that are often related to hyperglycaemia. Maternal glucose is the major determinant of increased birthweight and there are ...

The lives and respiratory health of Palestinians are at risk. In the Gaza Strip, the average life expectancy decreased by 34·9 years1 and over 59 587 Palestinians (including 17 921 children) were ...

Although some outcomes showed small to medium effect sizes, these results must be interpreted cautiously given the presence of uncertainty factors, including considerable heterogeneity and moderate ...

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a leading cause of premature death, affecting 1·00–1·14 per 1000 people with epilepsy annually.1 Identifying those at high risk or low risk of SUDEP is ...