Amid the raging US Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th President, vowed that
America's “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the …

Among the most popular Twitter messages last year was from JK Rowling:“If we all hit ctrl-alt-
del simultaneously and pray, perhaps we can force 2016 to reboot”. 1 This captured …

The EAT-Lancet Commission1 aims to define healthy global diets that avoid environmental
degradation. It adopts the planetary boundaries concept to define “a safe operating space …

Yet these claims discount substantial evidence about the favourable effects of physical
activity on obesity prevention, maintenance of weight loss, body fat, and fat distribution, and …

The meteoric progress of generative artificial intelligence (AI)—such as Open AI's ChatGPT,
capable of holding realistic conversations, or others of creating realistic images and video …

This warning was not heeded: the overall agreement fell short of the necessary ambition,
and health was noticeable by its absence from the negotiations. However, over the longer …

April 7 marks WHO's annual World Health Day, which this year has the theme “Our planet,
our health”. The future health of the planet and human health are inextricably linked. An …

3 WHO. WHO remains firmly committed to the principles set out in the preamble to the
Constitution. 2020. https://www. who. int/about/who-weare/constitution (accessed Oct 6 …

In 2012, I took a train to Brussels to attend a meeting on harm reduction. The invitation came
from Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to José Manuel Barroso (then President of the …