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The comprehensive assessment on environmental factors and epigenetics with obesity provides novel insights into potentially modifiable factors related to obesity at the outset and the end of puberty, with close relevance to health policy and public health.

Well-coordinated, decisive, and collective actions remain critical to make screening programmes more equitable and resilient in the face of natural and geo-political calamities.

The lifespan of individuals who suffer from an osteoporotic fracture is reduced by between 1 and 7 years, depending on the location of the fracture and their risk profile, suggesting that their 'Skeletal Age' is higher than their chronological age.

Assessing predicted fMRI-based functional brain age before and after a lifestyle intervention suggests that weight loss, improved liver biomarkers, decreased liver fat, and visceral and deep subcutaneous adipose tissues correlate with attenuated brain aging.

By producing one hundred SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic trees for different geographical and time scales, the maximum likelihood-based phylodynamic method implemented here enabled to robustly describe SARS-CoV-2 geographic spread through France, Europe, and worldwide in 2020.

The Policy Committee of the International Papillomavirus Society describes how lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic could propel a new approach to the elimination of cervical cancer that is more likely to be successful.

Preclinical multilaboratory studies are a robust method to assess promising interventions.

Site-specific polygenic risk scores can stratify the risk of developing breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers in this East Asian population.

Persistence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and reactivation of unrelated latent viruses may play a role in the development and pathogenesis of long COVID, and future research should focus on identifying the mechanisms behind these interactions.

A diverse and substantial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care is observed, including delays in treatment, screening, and diagnosis, as well as on the psychosocial welling of patients with cancer.