Health systems worldwide face two fundamental and connected challenges: pervasive misinformation and disinformation and eroding public trust.
A Viewpoint discusses the paradox of trust in health care in the age of social media: http://spkl.io/6016AvBw0 http://spkl.io/6015AvBwL
🆕 Editorial: “there are differences in health needs, risks of exposure, access to care...and health outcomes by gender and sex [...] Attempting to ignore or hide this reality through academic censorship will not make these effects go away”
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Pinned: Getting to zero: what will it take to end violence against women? More and better data are needed—but enough evidence already exists to invest in bold action at scale.
Read more in our latest issue: http://spkl.io/6014Axj2p
Introducing The Lancet Pulse—a new podcast translating science into real-world clinical insights.
Editors from The Lancet and leading global experts unpack the hot topics shaping medicine and patient care. http://spkl.io/6018AQePm
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common genetic cause of chronic kidney disease.
A new Review focuses on current approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and specific aspects of clinical management. Read more: http://spkl.io/6016AxPWO
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Meet the editorial team of The Lancet Medical Imaging & Theranostics as they explore the journal's aims and scope and what they look for in a research paper.
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Cut off from Venezuelan oil, Cuba is facing increasing pressure including on its ailing health system.
✍️ Joe Parkin Daniels reports: http://spkl.io/6013AvEUR http://spkl.io/6011AvEUP
Why does Prof. Rachel Yehuda describe psychedelics as “heart openers”? Why does Dr. Liliana Galindo liken their action to a surgeon’s scalpel?
Find out in a new Lancet Pulse episode 👉 http://spkl.io/6012AQcFw
Introducing our new #goldopenaccess journal on medical imaging and theranostics!
Learn more about the journal’s mission and explore related content from The Lancet Group today: http://spkl.io/6019As4RH http://spkl.io/6010As4Ry
Proposals for huge cuts to National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budgets have been rejected, to the relief of scientists.
✍️ @susanjaffe reports: http://spkl.io/6014AvEIK
People with obesity at 70% higher risk of serious infection with one in ten infectious disease deaths globally potentially linked to obesity, study suggests.
Find out more 👉 http://spkl.io/6019AvBkd
The race to elect the next WHO Director-General is set to begin. In a time of global turbulence, who is best placed to lead?
Read more: http://spkl.io/6012AaWr2
Incretin-based medications—developed based on the therapeutic potential of GLP-1—are now highly effective, widely recommended treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity complicated by comorbidities.
What comes next? Find out: http://spkl.io/6014Aa3g8
Introducing a new Lancet podcast 🎙️
Every month, The Lancet Pulse explores the latest advances and toughest challenges in clinical medicine.
Listen to episodes 0 through 3 today: http://spkl.io/6017AQeG1
📣 Speakers announced!
14 academic and lived experience experts will lead an exceptional programme at The #LancetSummit: shaping the future of #diabetes prevention. Submit your abstract by Jun 12 to join them: https://hubs.li/Q044-M7c0
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Pinned: On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”
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Innovation, challenge, and ethics – in this Lancet Pulse episode, Professor Alexandre Loupy shares the ins and outs of xenotransplantation.
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Almost all side effects on statin labels not caused by statins, finds major meta-analysis; authors call for labels to be updated.
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R to @LancetChildAdol: Find out more more from SPIRIT and CONSORT child and adolescent project leads, Ami Baba and Martin Offringa.
🎧 New Lancet Voice. Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/861868/episodes/18698763
VEXAS syndrome is a newly discovered multisystemic disease affecting most organs.
A Review provides a comprehensive overview of VEXAS syndrome, including the disease's discovery, diagnosis, and treatment: http://spkl.io/6011AQPUJ
R to @LancetChildAdol: 2⃣ SPIRIT-Children and Adolescents (SPIRIT-C) 2026 extension statement: http://tinyurl.com/3bdu5sm3
R to @LancetChildAdol: 1⃣ CONSORT-Children and Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 extension statement: http://tinyurl.com/3rpcpj2j
Uncertainty remains in the evidence base for child and adolescent health. Trial quality is inconsistent, numbers lag behind adults, and young people’s needs are often inadequately considered.
🆕 in >@LancetChildAdol, CONSORT-C and SPIRIT-C guideline extensions mark a new era for child and adolescent health research.
Adopt today: http://spkl.io/6017Av4tP
AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions, UK trial finds.
Explore the research: http://spkl.io/6013AsjOJ
Glucagon-like receptor agonists and next-generation incretin-based medications: metabolic, cardiovascular, and renal benefits http://spkl.io/6016AsNlA
People with obesity at 70% higher risk of serious infection with one in ten infectious disease deaths globally potentially linked to obesity, study suggests.
Find out more 👉 http://spkl.io/6018AQd8A
Pinned: Launching The Lancet Pulse 🚀
From xenotransplantation to psychedelic drug research, The Lancet Pulse translates science into practical insights about new clinical research—and why it matters.
Listen today: http://spkl.io/6015AQjHW
The three major global threats to population health are non-communicable diseases (#NCDs), infectious disease outbreaks, and environmental degradation.
A Lancet Commission provides a set of priority recommendations to address these threats.
Read now 👉 http://spkl.io/6017AUMjF
With the introduction of adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) for Parkinson's disease, new questions emerge regarding who, why, and how to treat.
Find out more in a new Therapeutics Review: http://spkl.io/6010Av8aA
New Clinical Round—A multidisciplinary management approach to cervical cancer during pregnancy http://spkl.io/6016Av8Va
Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, remains a key global health issue.
In a Seminar, authors provide an update on key public health and clinical aspects of the disease: http://spkl.io/6014AQzvQ
"Where was health? Absent."
In his latest Offline, Richard Horton discusses the lack of focus on global health issues at the 2026 Munich Security Conference: http://spkl.io/6015AvE9t
R to @TheLancet: Access the full issue ⬇️ http://spkl.io/6013AvBxD
Pinned: Since the start of the war, 68% of Ukrainians report a decline in their health.
That the situation is not substantially worse is in large part thanks to the determination, adaptability, and courage of the country's health-care workers.
Find out more: http://spkl.io/6012AvBx8
Migraine affects 1·2 billion people worldwide.
In the last few years, several new migraine-specific preventive treatments have become available, improving patient quality of life.
Find out more in a new Review in @TheLancetNeuro 👉 http://spkl.io/6013AQ46d
Tenecteplase versus standard medical treatment for basilar artery occlusion within 24 h (TRACE-5): a multicentre, prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, superiority, phase 3 trial http://spkl.io/6016AQd5y
Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal
realistic? And how might it change medical research?
✍️ Talha Burki reports: http://spkl.io/6014AQduQ
"We need to address this crisis head-on to avoid a generational legacy of increased morbidity, mortality, and insecurity."
In a Viewpoint, @SaniaNishtar calls for coordinated action—a Global Health Leap— to transform and reform the fragmented global health architecture: http://spkl.io/6016AQRpa