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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matias Delacroix/AP/Alamy Black River, a port town in southwest Jamaica, bore the brunt of Hurricane Melissa when it made ...