SARS-CoV-2—initially thought of as an acute respiratory virus—can lead to post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID), a chronic multisystemic illness that develops in some people who have been ...

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 ...

A new study has described the policies that countries in Europe have adopted to support people with cancer and cancer ...

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 ...

Which landscapes help us recover? For the Instagram generation, detox and rehab may summon images of tropical climates and ...

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

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

Limited reporting of Indigenous-led planetary health education programmes has constrained efforts to expand planetary health education, in Indigenous communities and beyond, despite urgent need.

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

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

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; ...

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 ...