The Lancet

6 days ago | thelancet.com | Sharmila Devi

Up to 8·6 million people could lose access to health care provided by the US federal Medicaid programme for adults with low income under a budget bill , which cuts spending and taxes and was passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025.

1 week ago | thelancet.com | James Lindsay

aBarts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UKbCentre for Immunobiology, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UKPublication History:Published May 30, 2025DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(25)00103-7 External LinkAlso available on ScienceDirect External LinkCopyright: © 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

1 week ago | thelancet.com | Paul Adepoju

The 78th World Health Assembly convened in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 19 to May 27, 2025, and several notable developments, including the creation of a new international health day for cervical cancer and the adoption of a resolution on medical imaging, helped to platform oncology and non-communicable diseases. In his opening address, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus positioned cancer within the broader non-communicable disease landscape.

1 week ago | thelancet.com | Roger Pebody

In a provincial Mexican city, a young gay man wakes up on a Saturday morning, recalls the events of the previous night and realises that he needs post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). He's not sure if he can get it locally, especially with health services closed for the weekend, and he's worried about doctors judging him. As he only knows about PEP from Instagram posts by a group called VIHve Libre , he sends them a message.

2 weeks ago | thelancet.com | Talha Khan Burki

In June 2016, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) released the Safe Prescribing of Drugs with Potential for Misuse/Diversion standard . The standard came 2 months after the province had declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency (since then, more than 16 000 people have died from overdoses in British Columbia, the vast majority of which have involved opioids). The 2016 standard was legally enforceable.