Cooling cities through urban green infrastructure: a health impact assessment of European cities.
Background: High ambient temperatures are associated with many health effects, including premature mortality. The combination of global warming due to climate change and the expansion of the global built environment mean that the intensification of urban heat islands (UHIs) is expected, accompanied by adverse effects on population health. Urban green infrastructure can reduce local temperatures. […]
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels.
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown is published as the world confronts profound and concurrent systemic shocks. Countries and health systems continue to contend with the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a persistent fossil fuel overdependence has pushed the world into global energy and cost-of-living crises. […]
Efficacy and safety of oral immunotherapy in children aged 1-3 years with peanut allergy: a randomised placebo-controlled study.
Background: For young children with peanut allergy, dietary avoidance is the current standard of care. We aimed to assess whether peanut oral immunotherapy can induce desensitisation (an increased allergic reaction threshold while on therapy) or remission (a state of non-responsiveness after discontinuation of immunotherapy) in this population. Methods: We did a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in five […]
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a growing global population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems is an immediate challenge. Although global food production of calories has kept pace with population growth, more than 820 million people have insufficient food […]