The landscape for rare diseases in 2024
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 …
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.
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.
Open access - The Lancet
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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, …
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 …
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 …
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - The Lancet
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD) is a severe mental disorder that emerges in response to traumatic life events. Complex PTSD is characterised by three core post-traumatic symptom clusters, along with chronic and pervasive disturbances in emotion regulation, identity, and relationships. Complex PTSD has been adopted as a new diagnosis in the ICD-11.
GOLD COPD report: 2024 update - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Dec 4, 2023 · The 2024 report from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been published. Key changes in the report were discussed by Claus F Vogelmeier (Philipps-Universität Marburg, German Center for Lung Research, Marburg, Germany) at the …
Education: a neglected social determinant of health
Education and health and wellbeing are intrinsically linked. The evidence behind the importance of education as a determinant of health is amongst the most compelling. Education is strongly associated with life expectancy, morbidity, health behaviours, and educational attainment plays an important role in health by shaping opportunities, employment, and income. In this issue of …