Transgender people receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy have a 37% lower chance of acquiring HIV, and for people living with HIV, hormone therapy appears to offer a 44% lower chance of the virus ...

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor ...

I spent an afternoon at Keats House in Hampstead, London, UK. John Keats (1795–1821) began an apprenticeship to a ...

A recent Lancet Editorial asserts that philanthropy in health is here to stay.1 Are these private actors altering the evolution of global and national institutions in ways that undermine planetary ...

A study published in Lancet HIV Thursday showed that patients who received gender-affirming hormones were 37% less likely to ...

Professor Rupert Pearse, NIHR Professor of Intensive Care Medicine from Queen Mary's William Harvey Research Institute, and ...

Decades of research and news articles espousing an “obesity epidemic” and tons of weight-loss products launched under the ...

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using ...

A large-scale, international, multicentre, phase 3 clinical trial of aspirin for the secondary prevention of colorectal ...

Led by Singapore, a 12-year, international, multi-centre, phase 3 clinical trial of aspirin for the secondary prevention of colorectal cancer in over 1,500 patients has been completed and published in ...

Medical cannabis is legal in the UK. This means that in some circumstances, specialist doctors may prescribe it to treat epilepsy. On this page, we talk about the different types of medical cannabis ...