Can I bring a bag of double cheeseburgers to the next Lancet editorial conference?

FORBES: The Lancet's Series on Obesity

In an editorial, The Lancet urged Reed Elsevier to sever all links with the arms trade, claiming they were incompatible with the journal's values.

BBC: Top exporters 2004

In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet, Edmund Jessop from the UK Faculty of Public Health in London said the UK had done very well in many areas of public health - it had stronger tobacco control than any other country in Europe, for example - but there was still "plenty of room for bold action by politicians".

BBC: UK 'fares badly in European health league table'

In an editorial earlier this year in The Lancet, a medical journal, Topol called for the FDA to put a black box label--its most serious warning--on Vioxx.

FORBES: Behind Merck's Fall

In a scathing series of articles and editorial in the British Medical Journal, researcher Andrew Wakefield, who wrote an influential Lancet article in 1998 suggesting vaccines cause autism, has been exposed as a fraud.

FORBES: Thimerosol-Autism Link Was A Legal Theory In Search Of Science