Breast cancer survival continues to improve in the United States and other high-income nations, while women in low-income countries face rising death rates and widening gaps in care. According to a ...
New Delhi: India had the highest number of overweight and obese males—16.8 million—and females—13 million—in the 15-24 age group in 2021, ahead of China, according to a comprehensive global analysis ...
Global heat-related deaths have surged since the 1990s, with high temperatures killing more than half-a-million people annually, according to an audit on the worldwide health impacts of climate change ...
Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute.
The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Ahead of ...
Food systems are key drivers of the world’s most urgent challenges, from chronic diseases and rising inequality to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet ...