Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the
Jul 31, 2024 · The 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on dementia provides new hopeful evidence about dementia prevention, intervention, and care. As people live longer, the number of people who live with dementia continues to rise, even as the age-specific incidence decreases in high-income countries, emphasising the need to identify and implement prevention approaches.
Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
In The Lancet, we have published the findings of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 in a series of six Articles.1–6 GBD began in 1991 and has continued over the past three decades to provide a comprehensive empirical assessment of health around the world.7 With each iteration GBD has become more detailed, including more …
How an outbreak became a pandemic: a chronological ... - The …
Understanding the spread of SARS-CoV-2, how and when evidence emerged, and the timing of local, national, regional, and global responses is essential to establish how an outbreak became a pandemic and to prepare for future health threats. With that aim, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has developed a chronology of events, actions, and …
Universal health coverage is a matter of equity, rights, and justice ...
Jul 7, 2023 · Universal health coverage is sometimes misunderstood as a goal to provide all available health services and products free to every person through national health insurance schemes. 9 In reality, universal health coverage means that all people can access the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As the health needs across income …
The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
Dec 10, 2024 · Dementia in the Western Pacific region: from risk reduction to care: The Series highlights the challenges in dementia risk reduction, diagnosis, treatment and care, and calls for intersectoral collaboration and action to achieve our shared goal of the best level of health for all people in the Western Pacific region.Explore the Series here.
Pollution and health: a progress update - The Lancet
May 17, 2022 · The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution …
The Lancet Microbe Home Page
Sep 12, 2024 · Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Laurence Armand-Lefevre and Professor Luc Hervé Samison about implementing the WHO Tricycle Protocol in Madagascar for the surveillance of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli in humans, chickens, and the environment.
Clinical advances and ongoing trials of mRNA vaccines for cancer ...
Years of research exploring mRNA vaccines for cancer treatment in preclinical and clinical trials have set the stage for the rapid development of mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therapeutic cancer vaccines based on mRNA are well tolerated, and the inherent advantage in ease of production, which rivals the best available conventional vaccine manufacture methods, …
For Authors : Preparing your manuscript - The Lancet
If your manuscript is not accepted by the first Lancet journal you submit to, it may be judged suitable to pass to other editors in The Lancet Group for consideration or to editors of other relevant journals within Elsevier's portfolio. To save you time, if you agree to have your manuscript passed to another journal you will not need to reformat your paper, and where …
The 2023 WHO World malaria report - The Lancet Microbe
Jan 31, 2024 · The estimated number of global malaria cases in 2022 exceeded pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels in 2019, according to WHO’s 2023 World malaria report. Several threats to the malaria global response are highlighted in the report, including climate change.