The world needs WHO. This should be an unambiguous and uncontroversial statement. But it is not. There are signals that WHO's perceived value has eroded, and that its central position in the ...
As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...
It is not every day that someone tells you they have “a passion for liver disease, especially end-stage liver disease”. But that is exactly how Patrizia Burra, a Co-Chair of the second European ...
Across the WHO European region, liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer are responsible for hundreds of deaths each ...
Lancet Liver Commission, published in December, 2021, highlighted that liver disease was the second leading cause of years-of-working-life-lost in Europe (after ischaemic heart disease). The ...
This third iteration of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Europe report systematically tracks the health effects of climate change adaptation and mitigation action, economics and ...