The Lancet: Journal Homepage
3 days ago · Explore articles from The Lancet, a world-leading medical journal founded in 1823, committed to applying scientific knowledge to improve health and advance human progress
The Lancet Rheumatology Home Page
Oct 11, 2024 · Explore clinical research, expert reviews, and comment and opinion from The Lancet Rheumatology. A voice for rheumatology specialists worldwide
Universal health coverage is a matter of equity, rights, and justice ...
Jul 7, 2023 · The Coalition of Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage and Global Health calls on all countries to urgently reinvigorate progress towards health for all.
The Lancet Digital Health
Oct 4, 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.
Influenza - The Lancet
Influenza is an acute viral respiratory disease caused by infection of the respiratory tract with influenza viruses (seasonal influenza A and B viruses) that circulate among people worldwide. Seasonal influenza refers to disease in humans caused by infection with seasonal influenza A or B viruses and is the focus of this Seminar. Annual influenza epidemics of variable severity …
AI in medicine: creating a safe and equitable future - The Lancet
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, …
The Lancet Public Health Home Page
Nov 20, 2024 · Read open access research, editorials, comments, and correspondence from The Lancet Public Health, which contribute to advancing public health practice and policy making worldwide
Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
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 …
Treatment outcomes for depression: challenges and opportunities
Feb 17, 2020 · Depressive disorders are common, costly, have a strong effect on quality of life, and are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Effective treatments are available: antidepressant medication and talking therapies are included in most guidelines as first-line treatments. These treatments have changed the lives of countless patients worldwide for the …
Long COVID: a clinical update - The Lancet
Jul 31, 2024 · Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to severe and protracted impairment of function as a result of organ damage. The burden of this disease, both on the individual and on health systems and …