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September 2025

Climate change and human health — a research agenda for action

Climate change, emissions of volatile anesthetics, and policy making: the case of desflurane

Climate change, marine pathogens, and human health

Climate crossroads: how global warming drives coronavirus emergence, the long COVID crisis of tomorrow, and AI’s role in navigating our future

Climatic drivers of infectious diarrheal disease epidemics in China

Conceptual frameworks, competencies, contents and teaching methods in planetary health education for health students and professionals: a global systematic scoping review

Cost-effective strategies for reducing carbon emissions in plastic surgery

Elevated toxic element emissions from popular disposable e-cigarettes: sources, life cycle, and health risks

Emergency Medical Services response to wildfires from a public health perspective: a systematic review

Environmental noise in Europe 2025 (European Environment Agency report)

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care: consensus statement on the prehospital management of exertional heat illness

How climate change is threatening Africa by supercharging Rift Valley fever

Impact of marine microplastics on neurologic and functional disabilities: a population-level study

Implementation of a heat alert system for clinical staff in an ambulatory setting: a pilot project

The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems

Need for planetary health perspective in guidance for complex interventions for climate and health

Occupational heat-related illness

Plant-based and sustainable diet: a systematic review of its impact on obesity

Preemptive hospital evacuation during the 2021 European floods

Reducing inhaler-related greenhouse gas emissions

Temperature extremes, climate change and multimorbidity: a rapid scoping review

Sources

ACS Central Science (Jun); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun-Jul); Burns (Aug); Emergency Medicine Journal (Jun); European Environment Agency website (Jun); European Journal of Neurology (May); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); JAMA (Jun-Jul); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Jul-Aug); Journal of Infection (Jul); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Aug); Lancet, The (Jul); NEJM (Jul); Obesity Reviews (Jun)

July 2025

Associations between ambient air pollution and five common vision-threatening ocular diseases in middle-aged and older adults: a large prospective cohort study

Associations between main ambient air pollutants and ischaemic heart disease risk in the UK biobank: a prospective cohort study

Bilosomes as a novel ocular drug delivery system: assessing the material attributes, process parameters, and quality attributes

Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Climate disaster effects on acute health care: a case study and model of the 2021 heatwave in British Columbia, Canada

Climate therapy: sustainability solutions for breast cancer care in the Anthropocene era

Considerations for improving the relevance, use, and robustness of projections of the health risks of climate change

The effect of air pollution exposure on menstrual cycle health using self-reported data from a mobile health app: a prospective, observational study

Extreme heat and hospitalization among older persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias

Gardening initiatives as an approach to cancer prevention for children and youth

Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Health care system adaptation and resilience during the wildfire crisis

Making the invisible visible: the impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior and welfare

Mosquito and global dengue cases in a warming world

Particulate matter, socioeconomic status, and cognitive function among older adults in China

Pollution, stress response, and obesity: a systematic review

Promoting health through climate change mitigation in Europe

Setting priorities for climate and health adaptation (BMJ analysis)

A systematic review of sustainability practices in plastic surgery

Towards a greener, healthier Paris

Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study

Sources

American Journal of Ophthalmology (Jun); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Apr); BMJ, The (May); BMJ Global Health (May); Clinical Breast Cancer (Apr); The Conversation website (Mar); Experimental Eye Research (Jun); JAMA (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Mar); Lancet, The (Apr); Lancet Planetary Health, The (Apr-May); LSE Grantham Research Institute website (Feb); Obesity Reviews (May); Public Health (May)

May 2025

Advancing sustainability in healthcare: a scoping review of global recycling practices in operating rooms

Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US

Assessing the utility of healthcare claims data to determine potential health impacts of PFAS exposure with public drinking water

Carbon footprint analysis of an outpatient dermatology practice at an academic medical center

Cardiovascular disease burden linked to particulate matter pollution in Latin America and the Caribbean: insights from GBD 2021 and socio-demographic index analysis

Copper-enriched automotive brake wear particles perturb human alveolar cellular homeostasis

Effect of global climate change concern on environmental sensitivity of nursing students

The effect of short-term exposure to air pollution on the admission of ischemic stroke and its interaction with meteorological factors

Equitable energy transitions for a healthy future: combating air pollution and climate change

Exploring nursing students’ metaphorical perceptions and cognitive structures related to the global climate crisis’s impact on nursing

Heat and mental health

Heat health in general practice: an evidence-based approach to the prevention of heat-related illness

Impact of climate change education on pregnant women’s anxiety and awareness

The impacts of noise and air pollution on breast cancer risk in European and East Asian populations: insights from genetic evidence

Interplay between genetic risk and built neighborhood conditions as predictor of BMI across the transition into adulthood

Manhattan’s street trees: an unfinished public health story

Respiratory benefits of multisetting air purification in children: a cluster randomized crossover trial

Toxic air: the biggest environmental killer of children in Europe and Central Asia

Use of emergency services in response to a flood: an account of the aftermath of the May 2023 flood in Romagna, Italy

Wildfires in southern California: concerns for lung health

Sources

American Journal of Public Health (Jan); American Journal of Surgery (Mar); Australian Journal of General Practice (Jan-Feb); BMJ, The (Mar); Emergency Medicine Journal (Feb); Environmental Epidemiology (Mar); JAMA Dermatology (Feb); JAMA Pediatrics (Feb); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Mar); Obesity (Mar); Particle and Fibre Toxicology (Feb); Public Health (Jan-Feb); Public Health Nursing (Jan/Feb); Science Advances (Feb)

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