The new report updated in The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, states that although the number of deaths from pollution sources associated with extreme poverty (such as indoor air pollution and water pollution) has decreased, these reductions are offset by increased deaths attributable to industrial pollution (such as ambient air pollution and chemical pollution). Low- and middle-income countries suffer the most from pollution’s health effects.

A new study published in The Lancet estimates that Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-attributable acute lower respiratory infection was responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in children under five globally in 2019.

Primary Care or Primary Medical care describes a narrow concept that focuses on the person as a whole to improve the health of the individual by providing easy access to medical care.

Keeping your vision healthy entails more than just receiving regular vision screenings. Your entire health might affect your eye health. Here are six tips for keeping your eyesight healthy.

A 12-week vegan diet may result in clinically meaningful weight loss and improve blood sugar control in overweight adults and those with type 2 diabetes, according to a meta-analysis of 11 randomised trials involving almost 800 participants (aged 18 or older).

Formula milk companies pay social media platforms and influencers to directly access pregnant women and new mothers. The $55 billion worldwide formula milk market targets new mothers with targeted social media material often not recognised as advertising.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from before and after the COVID-19 diagnosis show adverse brain changes. In a new study from the U.K. Biobank, two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and cognitive testing were performed on people as part of a longitudinal population study predated the COVID-19 pandemic.

A lot of people get sick, and some even die as a consequence of dehydration. It is estimated that one in nine people around the world does not have access to clean drinking water, and dehydration has taken the lives of 760,000 children in developing countries.

Novo Nordisk recently announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted the company a positive scientific opinion for a proposed update to the storage conditions of two human insulins.

The primary goal of the Drinking Water Quality Guidelines is to protect public health. The Guidelines contain the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommendations for managing the risk of hazards that may jeopardise drinking water safety.

Many studies show a general association between greater physical activity and a lower risk for depression. In this meta-analysis, researchers sought to quantify a dose-response relation by evaluating 15 observational studies (190,000 participants with follow-up ranging from 3 to 25 years) with a wide range of activity level measures that could be harmonised into a single measure of marginal metabolic equivalent task hours per week (mMET-h/wk).

Among different types of cancers worldwide, pancreatic cancer holds 11th position (only 3%). However, no matter how rare this is, pancreatic cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers.

Despite recent progress, the world is on track to miss its child and adolescent health targets, with over 8.6 million deaths expected in 2019. Children and adolescents need comprehensive, coordinated care from conception to adulthood, according to a new Lancet Series.

The European Medicine Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recently adopted a positive opinion recommending an extension of the NovoSeven® label to treat women suffering from severe post-birth bleeding when uterine contractions anti-bleeding medications (uterotonics) are insufficient to stop the bleeding.

In a small, randomised study, sleep restriction increased daily calorie intake, weight gain, and abdominal fat deposition.

A fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccine for over 60 has been approved in Israel. Two retrospective cohort studies now assess its COVID-19 prevention efficacy.

A poor diet, irrespective of genetic risk factors, is associated with a 30% increased risk of diabetes. Genetic risk factors and diet quality are independently associated with type 2 diabetes; a healthy diet is linked to lower diabetes risk across all levels of genetic risk.

Radiotherapy aims to deliver a high radiation dose to a tumour, killing all tumour cells. However, from the physical and technical point of view, a difficult task because malignant tumours are often located close to radiosensitive organs such as the eyes,

According to findings from a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, meningitis vaccines could help improve protection against gonorrhoea amid rising cases globally and increase bacterial resistance to drugs used to treat the infection.

According to new research presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), people at high risk of having a stroke or heart attack in the next decade who contract COVID-19 are nearly three times more likely to be hospitalised, six times more likely to die from COVID-19.