When we consider war, the first things that tend to come to mind are tanks, missiles, and cities in shambles. But there is ...

For human health, war is hell. One could pick any past or present conflict to illustrate how war damages health. Armed conflicts kill, injure and traumatize people; wreck health infrastructure and ...

Well-being of Ukrainian and Polish college students during the Russo-Ukrainian war and coping strategies as predictors of mental health disorders, Critical Public Health, 35, 1, (2025). https ...

These wars can leave toxic environmental legacies and cause untold damage to human health. One-quarter of the world’s population, or two billion people , live in countries experiencing war.

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated. Millions still suffer from severe health issues caused by persistent chemicals ...

For example, the Torch 2 report in 2016 showed a long list of other health effects apart from thyroid cancer after the Chornobyl disaster. The Chornobyl meltdown had longterm health impacts ...

Tallying the understudied toll of war on human health matters because conflict is “really a political choice,” Flaxman said. “One that I feel like if we had the evidence on, we might be ...

Russia's three-year war in Ukraine has reduced infrastructure to rubble and displaced millions. Though estimates of the number of people killed since Moscow launched its invasion vary, the human ...

Each attack on health care is an attack on health and basic human rights. We already use the best available technology to wage war. We should use the best available technology to enforce the rules ...

Syrian war monitor says fighting across Sweida province ongoing, although Druze fighters regained control of provincial ...