Special reports
Smart solutions for human and environmental health
The founders and CEOs of three innovative startups how their solutions build healthier and more resilient populations
At the heart of air pollution
Research shows air pollution is associated with cardiovascular disease and causes a staggering one in five heart attacks. How can we clean up the air we breathe to save more lives?
Treating patient earth
Climate change and non-communicable diseases have an inextricable link
Landmark discoveries with staggering impact
New treatments have helped people with NCDs live normal life spans
Amazing advances in medicines hold huge promise for a better world
Five global experts offer a glimpse of the kind of innovations we may see in the future
Introduction: Medicines that changed the world
Medical discoveries have made NCDs more manageable
Fake drugs and how to protect the vulnerable
NCD medicines offer huge promise but are out of reach to many
24/August/2020
Obesity casts a big shadow
Rates of obesity are skyrocketing, and more comprehensive policies are needed to fully address the complex causes of the condition
A ruinous epidemic
The obesity crisis has been a long time in the making, gathering force despite more than a decade of individual initiatives to reduce the numbers of seriously overweight people. Comprehensive policymaking that touches on the complex roots of obesity has huge potential to reverse the progress of a deadly epidemic linked to growth in economic prosperity
Disease in disguise
As obesity reaches epidemic levels globally, experts are reflecting on the mixed results of policies implemented over the past decade and asking if obesity should be treated as a disease more than as a lifestyle choice that individuals can modify
Double burden on the poor
Populations in more than one in three low-income countries are hit by a double burden of malnutrition in the form of both obesity and undernutrition. Effective nutrition programmes can help countries overcome the double malnutrition challenge