Even if we accept the unverified numbers of direct civilian deaths provided by the Gaza Health Ministry, Khatib and colleagues deliver forecasts of indirect deaths using multipliers based on ...

A decade ago, 194 member states endorsed WHO's Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) to end preventable stillbirths, committing to reach the target of 12 or fewer late-gestation stillbirths (≥28 weeks) in ...

Despite appearing healthy at birth, neonates who later developed EOS already had distinct whole blood gene expression changes at birth, which enabled the development of a 4-gene predictive signature ...

Chronic kidney disease is a global public health problem, affecting about 10% of the world's population,1 with increasing ...

Atrial fibrillation is a key risk factor for ischaemic stroke. Furthermore, patients with atrial fibrillation and stroke tend ...

The headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) in London, UK, is a building that is designed to ...

Health promotion can be a substantial part of the mitigation of chronic diseases. Although there has been a systematic ...

Youth vaping rates in the US have dropped sharply over the past year, with teenagers reporting the lowest levels seen in a ...

Today, we publish the Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling—an inquiry and response to a neglected, understudied, and expanding public health threat. Gambling is not a simple leisure activity; ...

The slow arrival of vaccines to the increasing number of countries ravaged by mpox shows that the COVID-19 pandemic did not ...

Although smoking rates have declined in high-income countries over the past two decades, smoking remains the leading modifiable risk factor for mortality globally. More than 80% of current smokers now ...

In November, 2024, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP), the annual United Nations meeting on climate change, will happen ...