Not many people are better equipped to dissect the food system than Stuart Gillespie. He has spent the past four decades ...

Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues are a new class of compounds making their way into the European and US vaping markets, raising urgent questions about public health, regulation, and scientific research.1 ...

Humans are programmed to follow intellectual fashions. In the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the concept that inflammation is the core problem is dominant, whereas other key ...

The Review by Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer and colleagues1 on sepsis in patients who are immunocompromised is comprehensive and addresses a key and complex population. However, we would like to express ...

Language in reproductive health care, unlike elsewhere, has always defaulted to using the words woman and women due to the historic invisibility of pregnant transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse ...

Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of ...

The Working Group assessed more than 800 epidemiological studies that investigated the association of cancer with consumption of red meat or processed meat in many countries, from several continents, ...

An estimated 2·1 billion adults worldwide are affected by overweight and obesity, a figure projected to reach 3·8 billion by ...

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Coffee is one of the world's most widely consumed beverages. It contains many different compounds and its composition varies depending on how it is produced and prepared for drinking. After ...

When approached for a quote about Jeffrey D Rothstein, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Director of the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore MD, USA), his ...