New Delhi: India had the highest number of overweight and obese males—16.8 million—and females—13 million—in the 15-24 age group in 2021, ahead of China, according to a comprehensive global analysis ...

A Lancet Oncology study warns global breast cancer cases could reach 3.5 million by 2050, with India seeing a sharp rise in cases and deaths.

Global heat-related deaths have surged since the 1990s, with high temperatures killing more than half-a-million people annually, according to an audit on the worldwide health impacts of climate change ...

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Ahead of ...

About half of the world's population may not be able to access healthy food, clean environment or earn a living wage, indicating inequities in human health that have been made worse by geopolitical ...

Editors of The Lancet published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.'s one year of failure at HHS. They're correct about RFK Jr, but they are not blameless in what has happened.

Food systems are key drivers of the world’s most urgent challenges, from chronic diseases and rising inequality to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet ...

According to the new 2025 EAT-Lancet Report, one particular diet could not only improve your health but also save the planet billions of dollars in healthcare costs, slow climate change, and prevent ...