In response to the unsustainable burden of alcohol harms in Europe, this month saw the launch of the European Health Alliance on Alcohol, a cross-organisational coalition united in reducing alcohol's ...

Recent data from National Health Service (NHS) weight clinics in England show that a disproportionate number of referrals originate from the most deprived areas, with some children having BMIs over 40 ...

A couple of weeks after 5-year-old Hind Rajab called for help while trapped in a car under Israeli military fire in Gaza City, her decomposing body was found in February, 2024 alongside those of her ...

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Even before the advent of modern medical treatments, a healthy lifestyle was known to improve quality of ...

As Sudan enters its third year of war, tuberculosis continues to pose a serious threat to public health amid systemic health-care collapse.1 In 2024 alone, the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan ...

More than 3 years have passed since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February, 2022, a conflict that has ...

Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million ...

There have been important recent advances in the management of Crohn's disease, including new classes of biological or small molecule therapies, an appreciation that endoscopic mucosal healing results ...

aResearch Unit, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain bGenomics Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de ...

Promising a vision of universal health coverage and resilient health systems, a Tanzanian cardiologist is set to become one of Africa's most influential health leaders. Paul Adepoju reports.

Trusting caregivers to know their child and identify clinical changes is a fundamental principle of paediatrics. Although the ...