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A new study published in The Lancet reveals never-before-seen details about staggeringly high mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic within and across countries.

Scientists estimate every year of education reduces mortality by 2%.

Over 1.05 million deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and 250,000 deaths were attributable to AMR in the WHO African region, posing an unprecedented health threat.

Cardiovascular disease remains leading cause of death; urgent action is needed for a heart-healthy world.

Exposure to intimate partner violence or childhood sexual abuse is associated with wide-ranging physical and mental health effects, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Medicine.

While countries struggle to find solutions to the climate crisis deepening around the globe, policymakers at COP28 are setting their sights on critical information that could ultimately save millions of people from the ravages of food shortages, malnutrition, and diseases.

A new study projects nearly 1 billion people will be living with osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, by 2050.

Distinguished global health leader Ibrahim Abubakar is the recipient of the 2023 Roux Prize for his dedication to improving health outcomes over the last three decades. 

569,000 deaths were linked to bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in all 35 countries of the WHO Region of the Americas, according to a new peer-reviewed paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas.

An analysis of 19 causes of death in the United States revealed persistent disparities and a familiar pattern across five racial-ethnic groups and 3,110 counties from 2000 to 2019.

In a new study covering three decades of global anemia data (1990–2021), a complex picture emerges of how several key factors play into the divergence in success stories among men, women, and children.

A new study by investigators from IHME and Mass General Brigham found that maternal mortality rates have worsened from 1999 to 2019, hitting some racial and ethnic groups and states harder than others.

More than half a billion people are living with diabetes worldwide, affecting men, women, and children of all ages in every country, and that number is projected to more than double to 1.3 billion people in the next 30 years, with every country seeing an increase.

Eight million people suffer from the hereditary disease which disproportionately impacts children, adolescents, and young adults.

A new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study estimates that by 2050, there will be a 36.4% increase in cases of low back pain from 2020, with the highest increases in Asia and Africa.