A growing corpus of legal action, grounded in medical and scientific evidence on the harmful effects of environmental ...

A global call for preparedness Tropical cyclones, commonly known as hurricanes, typhoons, or tropical storms depending on ...

What role can the medical profession play in helping to attribute blame? In October the Lancet Countdown on Health and ...

Climate and conflict seriously threaten human health.123 From 1995 to 2015, more than 10 million child deaths were attributed ...

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has called on the world’s health bodies to “follow America’s lead” and remove ...

It may feel too big and difficult, but hospitals and general practices can make practical changes to protect the planet, ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s summary of Stevens et al’s study highlights the features of support ...

A series of bombings and armed assaults on the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, on 28 October ...

A doctor sued by Texas state for providing gender affirming care to minors has handed in her licence and moved out of state. Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against May Lau in ...

Young people’s risk of developing myocarditis is higher and longer lasting after covid-19 infection than after vaccination against it, the largest study of its kind suggests.1 The research—based on ...

Nur Yanayirah describes how extreme heat affected her pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood In 2013 I was heavily pregnant with my daughter during a period of extreme weather in Indonesia. A long dry ...

Framing patient safety failings as aberrations obscures the need for deeper systemic change, writes James Titcombe . The total liability for clinical negligence claims against the NHS has now reached ...