Special reports

10 min.
26/May/2021

Landmark discoveries with staggering impact

 New treatments have helped people with NCDs live normal life spans
10 min.
26/May/2021

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
4 min
26/May/2021

Introduction: Medicines that changed the world

 Medical discoveries have made NCDs more manageable
8 min.
26/May/2021

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
8 min.
24/August/2020

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
11 min.
24/August/2020

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
9 min.
24/August/2020

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