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Discrimination has ‘profound’ effect on health of disadvantaged people, says Lancet review

The latest Lancet Countdown report, which monitors the health consequences of climate change, highlights the need to prepare for future calamities. Even as Covid-19 continues to spread, a recent study suggests that the likelihood of another pandemic increases by 2% each year. In the coming decades, the interplay between the…

A new report from doctors and other health experts says the world's fossil fuel addiction is making the world sicker and is killing people

A new study confirms what experts in transgender medicine have known for years: The overwhelming majority — 98% — of adolescents who begin gender-affirming treatment continue that treatment into adulthood.

It finds that social contact between people with and without lived experience of mental illness is the most effective way to reduce stigma and discrimination

An endeavour to lay out roadmap for achieving universal health coverage for people of India

Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact

The BMJ reported on September 13 that The Lancet has refused to publish a letter by doctors from Kerala, urging that the ‘unscientific article’ be retracted

‘This may be one of The Lancet’s most shameful moments regarding its role as a steward and leader in communicating crucial findings about science and medicine,’ virologist says