The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human ...

As of Jan 21, 2025, firefighters in southern California, USA, were still struggling to extinguish two of the largest ...

The harsh reality for the millions of people living in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is that every breath they take puts their health at risk. The city is at the top of the world's most polluted ...

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission has accused Saima Wazed of securing her position thanks to her mother, Bangladesh's former Prime Minister. Samaan Lateef reports.

As wildfires rage across Los Angeles (CA, USA), the region's health systems are confronting an extraordinary test, exposing vulnerabilities that demand urgent attention. The crisis has revealed not ...

For several decades, the prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) has been steadily increasing.1 Alterations in hepatic ...

Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

Polio is a highly viral infectious disease that poses a life-threating risk to young children, often leading to paralysis and death, and children who are not fully immunised are especially vulnerable.

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia affects approximately 30 000 individuals worldwide.1,2 Patients have untreated high ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.