6 days ago · Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035.Published in 2013, the report laid out opportunities for national governments and the international community.

By definition, rare diseases affect a small number of individuals (fewer than 1 in 2000 people in any WHO region); yet, with more than 7000 types of rare disease in existence, the burden worldwide is not insignificant. To date, approximately 300 million people live with rare diseases. Such individuals are often a neglected and marginalised group, especially those in low-income …

Mar 4, 2024 · Lung cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer globally, and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. 85% of all lung cancer cases are categorised as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Nov 26, 2024 · Mohamed Omar joins The Lancet Digital Health to discuss pathology and generative AI from a Digital Health Perspective.We explore expert journeys, AI applications in diagnostics, GPT-4's role, integration challenges, ethical considerations, democratisation of knowledge, and future advancements in the field.

Dec 5, 2024 · The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published their 2025 strategy report on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of COPD. Key updates from the previous year's report were discussed at the GOLD International COPD conference in November, 2024, by Claus Franz Vogelmeier (Chair of the GOLD Science Committee; …

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May 18, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 8, 2024 · Dr Mark Russell and Sherry Yang discuss the factors influencing initiation of biologics in underserved populations with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK, how historical redlining and present-day racialised economic segregation affects health-care utilisation of adults with rheumatic diseases in the USA, and health inequities seen in rheumatology more broadly.

Aug 12, 2023 · The meteoric progress of generative artificial intelligence (AI)—such as Open AI's ChatGPT, capable of holding realistic conversations, or others of creating realistic images and video from simple prompts—has renewed interest in the transformative potential of AI, including for health. It has also sparked sobering warnings. Addressing the UN Security Council in July, …

Jan 16, 2025 · Explore articles from The Lancet Haematology, dedicated to publishing original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, haematological clinical practice