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Climate change and workplace heat stress: technical report and guidance (WHO report)
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity
Drug resistance in parasites: a review of mechanisms, drivers, and mitigation strategies
Effectiveness of SARS‐CoV‐2 testing strategies inreducing COVID‐19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths (new Cochrane review)
Efficacy and safety of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines (new Cochrane review)
Estimating the effect of contact tracing during the early stage of an epidemic
Heatwaves: how air pollution is worsening effects on health
HIV testing: increasing uptake among people who may have undiagnosed HIV (updated NICE guideline NG60)
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Monkeypox: a comprehensive review of virology, epidemiology, and global health implications
The path forward for vaccine policy in the United States
Personal night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases in >88,000 individuals (preprint)
Restoring the infant mortality rate as a measure of societal health and well-being
Transforming health: the role of mobile applications in lifestyle changes for hypertension
Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review
West Nile virus: a review (JAMA)
WHO guideline on HIV service delivery (WHO report)
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
BMJ (Aug-Sep); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); Infectious Disease Modelling (Sep); JAMA (Aug); Lancet (Aug-Sep); Lancet Global Health (Oct); medRxiv (Jun); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug); Nature (Aug); NEJM (Aug); NICE website (Aug-Sep); Obesity Reviews (Sep); Tobacco Control (Aug); WHO website (Aug-Sep)
Advances in the management of hepatitis B
Aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and chronic diseases in childhood: a nationwide cohort study
Bed poverty: effects on child health—and the doctor’s role
Common misconceptions about COVID hold strong as new variant spreads
Corynebacterium diphtheriae outbreak in migrant populations in Europe
Digital health, technology‐driven or technology‐assisted interventions for the management of obesity in children and adolescents (new Cochrane intervention review)
Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: a systematic review
Environmental noise in Europe 2025 (European Environment Agency report)
An evidence-based approach to COVID-19 vaccination
Food insecurity and clinical outcomes in surgical trauma patients
Health literacy and obesity: a systematic scoping review
Immunities in the COVID age: a sociomaterial and more-than-human perspective
The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews
Incident dementia across neighbourhood material deprivation: implications for underdiagnosis
Long COVID rates higher in women: evidence grows
Modeling reemergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US
Supporting dementia caregivers: the role of “lived experience” and public health collaboration
Trends and disparities in maternal self-reported mental and physical health
ACS Central Science (Jun); Addiction (Jul-Aug); Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions (Apr-Jun); Annals of Internal Medicine (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun-Jul); Burns (Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Cochrane Library (Jun-Jul); European Environment Agency website (Jun); Gauntlet website (Jun); Infection, Disease & Health (May); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); JAMA (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); JAMA Surgery (May); Journal of Infection (Jun); Lancet, The (Jun-Jul); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jul); Medscape (Jul); NEJM (Jun); Obesity Reviews (Jun-Jul); Pediatric Dental Journal (Aug); PLoS One (May); Social Theory & Health (Jul)
Antibiotic prescribing patterns in the community and primary care settings through a gender lens
Association between wealth and mortality in the United States and Europe
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (new Cochrane intervention review)
Driving under viral impairment: linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks
Gardening initiatives as an approach to cancer prevention for children and youth
Growing health concern regarding gambling addiction in the age of sportsbooks
Long COVID clinical evaluation, research and impact on society: a global expert consensus
Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators
Review of mammography screening guidelines of the 5 largest global economies
Typhoid conjugate vaccines for preventing typhoid fever (enteric fever) (new Cochrane intervention review)
Utilizing Google Trends data to enhance forecasts and monitor long COVID prevalence
Youth involvement in policy processes in public health, education, and social work—a scoping review
Addiction (Apr); Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); BMJ Open (May); Clinical Imaging (Apr); Cochrane Library (Apr-May); Communications Medicine (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Journal of Dentistry (Mar); Lancet, The (Apr); Nature Communications Medicine (Apr); NEJM (Apr); Obesity Reviews (Apr); PLOS Global Public Health (Apr); PLOS One (Apr-May); Public Health (May)
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