The Lancet Global Health

Cutting down smoking to five per cent of current rates by 2050 would increase life expectancy by a year among men and 0.2 years in women, according to recent global modelling studies published in The Lancet Public Health journal.

The study is the first to provide global estimates of inadequate micronutrient intake across 185 countries. Researchers found widespread deficiencies, with iodine, vitamin E, calcium, and iron being particularly low in diets worldwide.

People across all age groups in India, both men and women, are consuming inadequate amounts of micronutrients critical for health, including iron, calcium and folate, as estimated in a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

Almost 50 per cent of adults in India engaged in insufficient levels of physical activity in 2022, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

Neurological conditions like epilepsy and dementia are now the leading cause of ill health and disability globally, affecting 3.4 billion people in 2021, according to a major new analysis published in The Lancet Neurology journal.

According to the study, Diabetes has become a global crisis that is increasing exponentially and will have lasting effects on global health for generations to come.

The study was conducted under the framework of the Global Burden of Disease, a vast research programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involving thousands of researchers across the world.

Young people face higher health risks from alcohol consumption than older adults, according to a global study published in The Lancet journal on Friday.

Giving a different vaccine as the third dose than was received for the first two shots leads to better performance compared to using the booster of same preventive, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

As temperatures rise in a changing climate scenario, children born in India will be particularly vulnerable to a greater health burden of malnutrition, air pollution and deadly heat waves, according to a major new report published in The Lancet journal.

According to a recent study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, an international team of scientists are developing a global diet that may help improve one's health and also save the planet at the same time.

Climate change is making more people around the world vulnerable to heat exposure, putting them at greater risk of heart and kidney disease, heat stress, and other heat-related killers, scientists warned on Wednesday.

Incidence of type 2 diabetes is expected to rise from 406 million to 511 million globally in the next 12 years, a Lancet study has revealed. Read here to know if type 2 diabetes can be reversed or not.

More than three million cases of dengue fever, the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, could be avoided annually if global warming is capped at 1.5C, said a study that purports to be the first to show the health benefits of a cooler planet.

In 2015, 2.5 million people died early because of pollution in India. Globally the total count of deaths due to pollution that year was 9 million, which is three time more than the deaths due to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

Cutting down smoking to five per cent of current rates by 2050 would increase life expectancy by a year among men and 0.2 years in women, according to recent global modelling studies published in The Lancet Public Health journal.

The study is the first to provide global estimates of inadequate micronutrient intake across 185 countries. Researchers found widespread deficiencies, with iodine, vitamin E, calcium, and iron being particularly low in diets worldwide.

People across all age groups in India, both men and women, are consuming inadequate amounts of micronutrients critical for health, including iron, calcium and folate, as estimated in a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

Almost 50 per cent of adults in India engaged in insufficient levels of physical activity in 2022, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

Neurological conditions like epilepsy and dementia are now the leading cause of ill health and disability globally, affecting 3.4 billion people in 2021, according to a major new analysis published in The Lancet Neurology journal.

According to the study, Diabetes has become a global crisis that is increasing exponentially and will have lasting effects on global health for generations to come.

The study was conducted under the framework of the Global Burden of Disease, a vast research programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involving thousands of researchers across the world.

Young people face higher health risks from alcohol consumption than older adults, according to a global study published in The Lancet journal on Friday.

Giving a different vaccine as the third dose than was received for the first two shots leads to better performance compared to using the booster of same preventive, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

As temperatures rise in a changing climate scenario, children born in India will be particularly vulnerable to a greater health burden of malnutrition, air pollution and deadly heat waves, according to a major new report published in The Lancet journal.

According to a recent study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, an international team of scientists are developing a global diet that may help improve one's health and also save the planet at the same time.

Climate change is making more people around the world vulnerable to heat exposure, putting them at greater risk of heart and kidney disease, heat stress, and other heat-related killers, scientists warned on Wednesday.

Incidence of type 2 diabetes is expected to rise from 406 million to 511 million globally in the next 12 years, a Lancet study has revealed. Read here to know if type 2 diabetes can be reversed or not.

More than three million cases of dengue fever, the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, could be avoided annually if global warming is capped at 1.5C, said a study that purports to be the first to show the health benefits of a cooler planet.

In 2015, 2.5 million people died early because of pollution in India. Globally the total count of deaths due to pollution that year was 9 million, which is three time more than the deaths due to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.