The Lancet

With the final issue of The Lancet published, we bring 2024 to a close. Thank you to our readers and all who have contributed to our journals’ pages this year. Read the winning Wakley Prize essay and see the photos selected for our Highlights competition 👉 https://hubs.li/Q030k1xc0 Alt: Cover of The Lancet’s Dec 21, 2024 issue. The image on cover depicts an 83-year-old man who, unable to walk on his own, arrived for a non-communicable diseases screening carried by his son. Copyright: Sanjib Kumar Sharma.

In the last Lancet Voice of 2024, Miriam Sabin and I host Ali Mokdad and Emmanuela Gakidou, to discuss the GBD papers in the recent Lancet special issue on the US. We talk obesity, life expectancy, the incoming administration, and how models get made. https://lnkd.in/dx_HPCzD

Last week, The Lancet published a US theme issue 🇺🇸 Linked, five research articles examine population health trends. The evidence presented “starkly describes the current health state of the nation: growing disparity across socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groupings that manifests in diverging health outcomes”, say Professors Ali Mokdad and Christopher Murray. In a Review, authors highlight key findings across the articles and urge action on the nation’s declining health; “While the track record of the USA to date is shockingly poor, we should not allow our dismal forecasts to become reality.” Find out more 👉 hubs.li/Q02_BTyh0 Link to the full issue in the comments 🗨️ Alt: Cover of The Lancet, December 7 issue: A Presidential Briefing Book

The misuse and overuse of antibiotics greatly contribute to the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), worsen patient outcomes, and increase health-care costs. What is the potential of digital health technologies in addressing this growing threat? A three-paper Series in The Lancet Digital Health investigates 👉 https://hubs.li/Q02-Trkf0 Figure: Factors influencing antimicrobial treatment outcome within the individual and associated data sources that digital health technologies can provide to support optimisation of prescribing and address AMR

On Jan 20, 2025, the Trump administration will take charge at a crucial time for health in the USA. To address the seriousness of the task ahead, The Lancet has published what can serve as a presidential briefing book, bringing together the best evidence on the state of health in the USA and some solutions for improving it. “Trump can admire the USA’s rise in life expectancy for all Americans 4 years from now, or he can watch the USA sink further behind in untimely deaths and unwieldy health costs”, states our Editorial. Read the issue in full 👉 https://hubs.li/Q02-Rb640 -- Alt text: Cover of The Lancet, December 7 issue.

Watch our webinar on the Lancet Oncology Commission on radiotherapy and theranostics, now available on-demand. Our Commission authors shared their research into the challenges and opportunities of increased access to these essential cancer treatments to combat the global burden of cancer. Watch now: https://hubs.li/Q02WPSpc0

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2024 has been a year of highs and lows in the global HIV effort. More people than ever are receiving antiretroviral treatment and have viral suppression. Deaths from AIDS are at their lowest level for two decades. Yet despite this encouraging progress, the SDG goal of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030 is not on track. “Scientific advances alone are insufficient...it is a political and financial choice”, write editors in The Lancet. Read a new Editorial 👉 hubs.li/Q02ZX0L-0 Alt text: Cover of The Lancet, Nov 30 issue. The quote: “Scientific advances alone are insufficient to end HIV as a public health threat: it is a political and financial choice.”

Watch our Lancet Webinar exploring the inequalities in medicine experienced by girls and women globally, available on-demand now! Watch now: https://hubs.li/Q02WPTbL0 Our editors were joined by expert panellists who discussed what progress has been made in addressing inequalities in healthcare, explored cutting-edge research that will benefit women over their life course, and examined how traditionally male-biased fields are moving towards improving inclusion of women in clinical trials.

“The world in 2024 was not all right for children” This November marks the 35th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), ratified by all countries bar the USA. “Many of us were among the first generations of children and young people to experience the benefits of the UNCRC. As adults concerned with the wellbeing of today’s children, are we doing enough to uphold their rights?”, ask editors of The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. This #WorldChildrensDay, read the journal’s latest Editorial 👉 hubs.li/Q02YS_150 -- Alt text: Quote card, “We must be the generation of adults in 2025 that changes how we treat children if the cycles of violence against each other and our planet are to end.”