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A large study has found calcium supplements, long recommended for bone health, particularly in older women, don’t increase dementia risk, offering reassurance for the millions who take them to protect against osteoporosis.

8 days ago thelancet.com health

People who stop smoking in middle age can reduce their cognitive decline so dramatically that within 10 years their chances of developing dementia are the same as someone who has never smoked…

6 days ago thelancet.com neuroscience

A major global study from The Lancet shows infectious diseases keep falling, but chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and anxiety are rising worldwide.

7 days ago thelancet.com diabetes disease health

A new study published in 'The Lancet' finds that food systems are a major driver of environmental degradation, rising chronic disease and growing inequality

14 days ago thelancet.com disease environment

A large US study found that children and teens were twice as likely to develop long COVID after a second infection with omicron.

18 days ago thelancet.com covid health

Researchers have found the longest known case of COVID-19 in a person living with HIV

36 days ago thelancet.com biology covid

Nearly half of people with diabetes around the world are unaware of their condition, according to a new study. Globally, an estimated 44% of people 15 and older with diabetes didn’t know they had the life-threatening disease

40 days ago thelancet.com diabetes disease health

A new analysis estimates 81,300 cancer cases in 2022 were linked to HIV, mostly in Africa

49 days ago thelancet.com cancer health

Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy

2 months ago thelancet.com ai cancer

Negative parenting practices and family dysfunction seem to precede self-harm and suicidality among children and adolescents.

2 months ago thelancet.com psychology

Analysis of 152 countries (1971–2021) finds unilateral economic sanctions raise mortality across all ages, with annual deaths comparable to global armed conflict.

2 months ago thelancet.com economic health

A new Lancet Psychiatry report urges making lifestyle interventions core in mental health treatment to improve wellbeing and reduce early death rates.

2 months ago thelancet.com health

Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality

56 days ago thelancet.com

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza

2 months ago thelancet.com

Common medications including antiepileptics, beta-blockers and diabetes drugs significantly raised death risk during Canada’s 2021 heat dome while calcium channel blockers and eye drops showed protective effects in older adults with chronic diseases.

2 months ago thelancet.com canada diabetes epidemiology

Liver cancer cases could nearly double globally, rising from 870,000 to 1.52 million per year if trends continue

2 months ago thelancet.com cancer

A new paper in the Lancet Global Health warns that AI in health is worsening climate harms; fuelled by water use, emissions & extractive tech.

3 months ago thelancet.com ai health

A massive study (1.6M children, 68 countries) shows early-life exposure to income shocks boosts both undernutrition and obesity risks

3 months ago thelancet.com health

Overall survival according to time-of-day of combined immuno-chemotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a bicentric bicontinental study

3 months ago thelancet.com cancer medicine

A new study shows how the smallest air pollutants (PM1) changed across the US from 1998 to 2022

4 months ago thelancet.com environment

Convergent evidence linking neonatal vitamin D status and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders: a Danish case-cohort study

4 months ago thelancet.com medicine

Long-term effects and effect heterogeneity of lifestyle and metformin interventions on type 2 diabetes incidence over 21 years in the US Diabetes Prevention Program randomized clinical trial

5 months ago thelancet.com diabetes health trial

Unithiol was tested in Kenya for snakebites. It’s safe, with no big side effects. The 1500 mg dose works well and could help in rural areas

6 months ago thelancet.com medicine

Europe's population is adapting better to cold than to heat - The relative risk of mortality at the coldest temperatures has decreased by 2% per year since 2003, while the risk from extreme heat has only fallen by 1% per year.

6 months ago thelancet.com europe health

Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers | Warmer temperatures and increased carbon dioxide will boost arsenic levels in rice.

6 months ago thelancet.com environment

Dutch dietary guidelines could dramatically cut chronic disease rates by 2050

6 months ago thelancet.com disease health

Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis

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New research shows that aid sanctions lead to sharp rises in infant and maternal deaths – undoing decades of health progress.

7 months ago thelancet.com health

A new study warns that international aid reductions may cause up to 10.75 million new HIV infections and 2.93 million deaths by 2030.

6 months ago thelancet.com health

Impact of an international HIV funding crisis on HIV infections and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study