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    Animals and wildlife

    Another Pandemic Almost Inevitable Within 20 Years, Warns Lancet Editor-in-Chief

    Horton’s final plea is therefore both scientific and moral: acknowledge the scale of the last disaster, confront the uncomfortable truths about how we live on this planet, and act before the next inevitable outbreak becomes the one we cannot contain.
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    Health Policy

    One Suicide Death Every 43 Seconds, Says Lancet Study

    Over the last three decades, the global age-standardized mortality rate for suicide declined by nearly 40 per cent, from about 15 deaths per 100,000 to 9 deaths per 100,000, indicating that intervention and prevention are working.
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    Education policy

    Rising Mental Health Concerns Among Children: A Wake-Up Call for UK Schools

    The recent report by The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Youth Mental Health underscores a global deterioration in youth mental well-being. Key contributing factors include...
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    COVID-19

    ‘Massive COVID-19 Failure’ Sets Back Global Development

    A report by the Lancet’s Commission on the COVID-19 pandemic points to a ‘massive global failure’ that led to COVID-19 deaths and reversal of...
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    Accountability

    Bench Under Fire: Sri Lanka’s Retirement Age Row

    Sri Lanka’s NPP government pushes a constitutional amendment to raise apex court judges’ retirement ages by two years, citing...
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    Air

    NHRC Must Recognise Impact of Heat as Violation of Fundamental Rights

    Extreme heat has become a growing public emergency, depriving people of basic necessities and threatening their right to live in a healthy, safe, and dignified environment.
    Disaster Management

    Pakistan’s Silent Epidemic: Nine Million Hepatitis C Cases Fuel Race Against 2030 WHO Deadline

    Pakistan’s response positions the country as both a high-burden test case and a potential model for elimination.

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    Accountability

    Bench Under Fire: Sri Lanka’s Retirement Age Row

    Sri Lanka’s NPP government pushes a constitutional amendment to...
    Air

    NHRC Must Recognise Impact of Heat as Violation of Fundamental Rights

    Extreme heat has become a growing public emergency, depriving people of basic necessities and threatening their right to live in a healthy, safe, and dignified environment.
    Disaster Management

    Pakistan’s Silent Epidemic: Nine Million Hepatitis C Cases Fuel Race Against 2030 WHO Deadline

    Pakistan’s response positions the country as both a high-burden test case and a potential model for elimination.
    Air

    NHRC Must Recognise Impact of Heat as Violation of Fundamental Rights

    Extreme heat has become a growing public emergency, depriving people of basic necessities and threatening their right to live in a healthy, safe, and dignified environment.
    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.

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