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In September, 2025, global stakeholders will convene at the United Nations General Assembly for the fourth High-Level Meeting ...
Singapore’s Healthier SG initiative, as reviewed by Foo and colleagues,1 signals a transformative shift in national healthcare strategy—centred on prevention, continuity, and patient centred care.
Overtreatment is considered harmful in terms of decreasing quality of life, wasting resources, and environmental damage.1–3 ...
On July 17, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised marketing of five Juul e-cigarette products to adults, ...
Every day, we are exposed to radiation—when going through security scanners, during routine medical care, or directly from the environment. In each case, our radiation safety limits are based on ...
Sudan's women and children are paying the highest price for a war the world barely acknowledges. 12 million people have been ...
The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health lucidly highlighted how attacks on the concept of gender, and on gender equality and women's rights more broadly, are not new. As Sarah Hawkes and her ...
Imagine a future where the global incident cases of liver cancer almost doubles, rising from 870 000 cases in 2022 to over ...
Hepatocellular carcinoma remains a substantial global public health concern, disproportionately affecting low-income and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa.1 Its burden in Africa is ...
As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 ...
Born in Taixing near Shanghai, China, Jian Zhou's inspiration to become a doctor came from his maternal grandfather, who had ...
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths ...