Lancet’s new commission aims to tackle potential public health threats for this century

Lancet Commission will look at factors that will impact population health the most through 2050 and beyond

India fourth in number of global malaria cases: Lancet report

All other nine high malaria prevalance countries are African

44 million women, 26 million men in India were obese in 2022: The Lancet

Obesity rates in country increased to 9.8% in 2022 from 1.2% in 1990 for women and to 5.4% for men from 0.5% 32 years ago

Clear and present danger: Lancet study highlights AMR time bomb in India, world

A recent study in The Lancet showed alarming casualties due to antimicrobial resistance globally, especially Asia and Africa; it also …

Air pollution killed 1.7 million Indians in 2019: Lancet report

Death rate from outdoor ambient air pollution up 115% in 2 decades, flags Lancet Planetary Health report  

Smoking marijuana daily increases psychosis risk five-fold: study

The research adds to previous studies that have found links between cannabis and psychosis, but does not definitely pin point cannabis as the cause

Alarming increase in global use of antibiotics, India is the largest consumer

A research published in a medical journal has sounded an alarm on overuse and misuse of antibiotic drugs

India has the highest population with household exposure to pulmonary TB

At least 38 million people live in households across 20 high-burden countries, where at least one person has incident pulmonary TB 

Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid

Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked? 

Indian diets are unhealthy: EAT-Lancet report

The report compared food consumption patterns in India with a reference diet from the EAT-Lancet Commission

India's roads to remain lethal even in 2030: Lancet

Roads in India ignore motorcyclists and cyclists, prioritise car owners, it says

Obesity, climate change and under-nutrition form a synergy of epidemics: Report

A Lancet Commission report says these three co-occur, interact with each other to produce complex sequelae and share common underlying societal …

India second-biggest market for sugary beverages: Lancet report

Double malnutrition on the rise in India due to shift to ultra-processed foods, private sector push

Depression, anxiety, trauma stress, bipolarity, schizophrenia: Unaccounted costs of conflicts

New estimates by WHO indicate the world has grossly underplayed the problem

Unbalanced diets in G20 countries make 75% of global food carbon budget: Report

Food consumption patterns aligning with current national dietary guidelines can reduce total greenhouse gas emissions for G20 countries

India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet

Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries 

Global Burden of Diseases: Non-communicable diseases bigger burden than early deaths

New report’s findings again emphasises the fast emergence of non-communicable diseases as a global health challenge

Type 1 diabetes leading cause of diabetes deaths in those below 25, easily preventable: Study

Countries with low socio-demographic indices recorded more type I diabetes deaths

Remdisivir shows no benefits on COVID-19 patients in first clinical trial

Lancet paper contradicts Gilead results on drug which claimed improvement in patients  

COVID-19: Egypt, South Africa, Algeria at highest risk in Africa

Labs ill-equipped, health systems lack isolation and quarantine facilities: Lancet paper

47 per cent of Indian women still marry before 18, says new Lancet Report on adolescent health

It also says that the rate of rural Indian girls marrying before 18 years is twice that of their urban counterparts

India has maximum infant deaths in the world

Lancet study says 5.5 million infant deaths in the world go unrecorded

One in every seven babies is born underweight: Study

The research includes data from 148 nations, but it only covers partial data from India

Over half the antibiotic formulations India used in 2019 were unapproved

Despite being the largest antibiotic consumer in absolute volume globally, India lacks a formal system of antibiotic use surveillance

Study finds pill prevented 200,000 womb cancer cases in rich nations

According to estimates, around 400,000 cancer cases were prevented over 50 years