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  The Lancet
15  may     22h00
Editorial Psychedelics: after the renaissance
The Lancet    20 years ago, The Lancet published an Editorial on reviving research into psychedelics for mental health conditions, observing that the blanket ban...
08  may     09h52
Comment TAPIS: a positive trial in a defined phenotype
Bijoy K Menon    Clinical trials in stroke balance a few tensions including efficacy against safety, biology against clinical proof, and broad answers against a...
15  may     22h00
Comment Emerging Î -lactam and Î -lactamase inhibitor strategies for complicated urinary tract infections
Marc Mendelson, Adrian Brink    Complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs) and acute pyelonephritis remain major causes of hospitalisation worldwide and contribute substantially...
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Comment Vaccine impact in Gavi-supported countries: balancing evidence with policy needs
Isaac Osei, Baleng Mahama Wutor    Vaccines remain one of the most impactful and cost-effective public health interventions. Decades of evidence from randomised controlled trials and...
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Comment End of transplantation’s reign in mantle cell lymphoma
Judith Trotman, Janlyn Falconer    Autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT) has remained central to the care of younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma since the publication of...
29  april     22h30
Comment A WHO worth fighting for: the case for focused, ambitious reform
Anders Nordström, John Nkengasong, Peter Piot, Magda Robalo Correia e Silva, Ala Alwan, Ethel L Maciel, Ren Minghui, Michel Kazatchkine    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...
15  may     22h00
Comment Offline: Hantavirus surprise, complacency, and peril
Richard Horton    Memories resurface. An unfamiliar virus. Deaths. A stricken cruise ship. Quarantines. Hastily arranged WHO press briefings. Scientists interviewed on...
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World Report Cleft surgery in Peru
Jacqui Thornton    Peru is expanding access to surgery and care for patients with cleft conditions in remote areas through intensive capacity-building led by local...
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World Report The medicine of...prisons
Talha Burki    As part of a series on medicine in unusual settings, Talha Burki takes a look at medical practice in UK prisons.
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Perspectives Thu-Anh Nguyen: building equitable access to health
Aarathi Prasad    In Viet Nam, health challenges are rarely abstract , says Thu-Anh Nguyen, Director of the University of Sydney Vietnam Institute (SVI) and Professor...
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Perspectives Digitising the thymus
Hugo J W L Aerts, Eric J Topol    For decades, the thymus has been regarded as a vestigial organ of childhood, essential for T-cell education early in life, but thought to lose...
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Perspectives Medicine, psychotherapy, and artificial intelligence
Caleb Gardner, Arthur Kleinman    The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI in medicine provokes important questions about the nature of clinical work performed by...
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Obituary Nancy J Cox
Faith McLellan    Virologist and expert in influenza surveillance, pandemic preparedness, and infectious disease response. Born on July 21, 1948, in Emmetsburg, IA,...
08  may     22h30
Correspondence Damage to Pasteur Institute of Iran threatens regional health security
Mahmoud Reza Pourkarim, Mohammad Barzegar, Philippe Lemey, Simon Dellicour, Marc Van Ranst    The Pasteur Institute of Iran sustained considerable damage from a series of airstrikes in late March, 2026.1 This historically important medical...
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Correspondence Arabian Gulf air pollution from energy infrastructure attacks
Barrak Alahmad, Hamad Ali, Faisal H Al-Refaei, Muna Alkhabbaz, Fahd Al-Mulla    Since early March, 2026, the US-Israel war with Iran has expanded to attacks on energy infrastructure, producing black plumes from burning fuel...
15  may     22h00
Correspondence FRESHAIR4Life: youth advocacy restoring trust in health institutions
Antonios Christodoulakis, Izolde Bouloukaki, Rianne M J J van der Kleij, Siân Williams, Ioanna Tsiligianni    We read with interest Marcello Ienca and colleagues’ Review on the increasing erosion of trust in health institutions.1 We also believe that...
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Correspondence Conversational AI and the amplified trust paradox in health care
Carlos Fernando Mourà£o, Luiz Eduardo Juliasse, Bruno César Vasconcelos Gurgel    Marcello Ienca and colleagues1 in their Review identify a trust paradox in which rigorous institutions lose credibility while unaccountable voices...
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Correspondence The plight of the Monaco microstate in the GBD 2023 study
Grant M A Wyper, Sarah Cuschieri, Brecht Devleesschauwer    The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, although invaluable for global health metrics, presents concerning...
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Correspondence The plight of the Monaco microstate in the GBD 2023 study - Authors’ reply
Simon I Hay, Catherine Bisignano, Christopher J L Murray    Grant M A Wyper and colleagues highlight a discrepancy between the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 life...
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Correspondence Proton versus photon therapy for oropharyngeal cancer
David J Sher    I congratulate Steven J Frank and colleagues1 on the successful completion of their multi-institutional study comparing photons with protons for...
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Correspondence Proton versus photon therapy for oropharyngeal cancer
Sean M McBride, Nadeem Riaz, Eric J Sherman, C Jillian Tsai, Loren K Mell    Trials of local therapies where progression-free survival is equivalent but overall survival is improved raise the spectre of confounding. The...
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Correspondence Proton versus photon therapy for oropharyngeal cancer - Authors’ reply
Steven J Frank, Paul M Busse, J Jack Lee, Robert L Foote, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Clinical Trial Consortium    We thank David J Sher for the compliments on our phase 3 trial of intensity-modulated (photon) radiation therapy (IMRT) versus intensity-modulated...
08  may     09h52
Articles Ticagrelor with aspirin dual antiplatelet therapy combined with intravenous thrombolysis in patients with ischaemic stroke in China (TAPIS): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial
Anxin Wang, Xue Xia, Ying Tang, Fan Zhang, Xinsheng Han, Jing Li, Xiaoli Zhang, Jing Wang, Yulin Song, Fengyuan Che, Yuzhang Bei, Yong He, Wenji Jing, Junfang Hao, Jinzhao He, Hongqin Yang, Shu Chen, Wei Wu, Ying Li, Hongguo Dai, Chengyan Yang, Zengqiang Sun, Li Li, Yunchao Chen, Philip M Bath, Guillaume Turc, Yilong Wang, TAPIS Investigators    Among patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis for moderate ischaemic stroke, initiation of oral DAPT within 6 h of onset improved the...
15  may     22h00
Articles Efficacy and safety of cefepime-nacubactam and aztreonam-nacubactam compared with imipenem-cilastatin for complicated urinary tract infection or acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis (Integral-1): a double-blind, randomised phase 3 trial
Satoshi Takahashi, Kazuhiro Tateda, Katsunori Yanagihara, Haihui Huang, Yohei Doi, Mitsuru Yasuda, Kazuaki Matsumoto, Masayo Sumiya, Risako Takaya, Keisuke Suwada, Satoshi Kamiyabu, Yuji Sasagawa, Takeshi Minamida, Seiji Kato, Kenichiro Kondo, Takeshi Naruse, Hiroshige Mikamo    Cefepime-nacubactam and aztreonam-nacubactam are potential treatment options for Gram-negative cUTI and acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis, including...
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Articles Quantifying relative health impact across Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s portfolio in 117 countries at the subregional level: a modelling study
Katy A M Gaythorpe, Xiang Li, Manjari Shankar, Anna-Maria Hartner, Zoë Gibney, Kaja Abbas, Romesh Abeysuriya, Christina Alam, Megan Auzenbergs, Andrew S Azman, Edwine Barasa, Alan Costello, Matthew J Ferrari, Keith Fraser, Han Fu, Lydia Haile, Romain Glèlè Kakaï, Andromachi Karachaliou-Prasinou, Elizabeth C Lee, Esther Nyadzua Katama, Jong-Hoon Kim, Mark Jit, Yang Liu, Josephine Malinga, Sean Moore, Shevanthi Nayagam, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Lucy C Okell, Akindele Akano Onifade, Timos Papadopoulos, Melissa A Penny, T Alex Perkins, Virginia E Pitzer, Allison Portnoy, Simon R Procter, Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Nick Scott, Chris Seaman, Andrew J Shattock, So Yoon Sim, Quan Tran, Emilia Vynnycky, Amy K Winter, Wes Hinsley, Neil M Ferguson, Caroline L Trotter    Decisions around which vaccines to use are increasingly important in the context of Gavi’s country vaccine budgets. Robust metrics that allow...
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Articles Addition of autologous stem-cell transplantation to an ibrutinib-containing first-line treatment in patients aged 18-65 years with mantle cell lymphoma (TRIANGLE): 4 5-year follow-up of a three-arm, randomised, open-label, phase 3 superiority trial of the European MCL Network
Martin Dreyling, Jeanette Doorduijn, Eva Giné, Mats Jerkeman, Jan Walewski, Martin Hutchings, Ulrich Mey, Jon Riise, Marek Trneny, Vibeke K J Vergote, Ofer Shpilberg, Maria Gomes da Silva, Sirpa Leppä, Linmiao Jiang, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Andrea Kerkhoff, Ron D Jachimowicz, Georg HeàŸ, Tom van Meerten, Stefan Wirths, Peter Herhaus, Urban Novak, Judith Dierlamm, Mathias Hänel, Christine Hanoun, Kristina Sonnevi, Carlo Visco, Daniela Donnarumma, Andrés J M Ferreri, Caterina Patti, Piero Maria Stefani, Christiane Pott, Wolfram Klapper, Christian Schmidt, Michael Unterhalt, Tobias Tix, Marco Ladetto, Eva Hoster, European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network    After a prolonged follow-up of 55 months, both ibrutinib-containing groups showed relevant improvements not only in failure-free survival a modified...
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Seminar Encephalitis
Sophie N M Binks, Deanna Saylor, Ava Easton, Kiran T Thakur, Sarosh R Irani    Brain inflammation secondary to encephalitis is an urgent global emergency and presents multiple opportunities to reduce current substantial...
14  april     22h30
Clinical Rounds Signe de cils in peripheral facial palsy
Alexandra Oancea, Alexander Stebner, Johanna Lieb, Ammar Kassoum, Felix Widmer, Johannes Frenger, Aidana Rakhimbayeva, Darima Sonieva, Nadine Bernasconi, Jens Dieter Wolfgang Lohrmann, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Mira Katan, Cristina Granziera, Özgür Yaldizli    The term signe de cils was introduced in the late 19th century and is attributed to Achille Souques, one of the most prominent French neurologists of...
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