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Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease
Promotion of influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies today. Twenty years ago, in 1990, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United...
[News] Platelet prophylaxis for haematological cancers
A recent study showed that prophylactic platelet transfusions to prevent bleeding in patients with haematological cancers should not be omitted. Simon Stanworth (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK) and colleagues enrolled 600 patients receivi...
[News] Molecular mutations in atypical chronic leukaemia
New research has identified a genetic driver common to atypical chronic myeloid leukaemia (aCML) and chronic neutrophilic leukaemia (CNL).
Minimally invasive autopsy has accuracy similar to that of conventional autopsy for detection of cause of death or major pathological abnormality after death in fetuses, newborns, and infants, but was less accurate in older children. If undertaken jo...
[Comment] Post-mortem diagnosis: evolving a team approach
The decline in autopsy rates in the past four decades in developed countries (to less than 5% in the USA) has paralleled continued discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnoses of up to 20–30%. However, uncertainty about the accuracy of less...
[Series] Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action
Pakistan's enormous macroeconomic, internal, and human security challenges coexist alongside the opportunity created by a huge desire for change. With democracy taking root and a new constitutionally ushered era in state governance, The Lancet Series...
[Series] Pakistan's health system: performance and prospects after the 18th Constitutional Amendment
Pakistan has undergone massive changes in its federal structure under the 18th Constitutional Amendment. To gain insights that will inform reform plans, we assessed several aspects of health-systems performance in Pakistan. Some improvements were not...
[Series] Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: strategic priorities
Non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders, and injuries have become the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Pakistan. Tobacco use and hypertension are the leadin...
[Series] Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities
Globally, Pakistan has the third highest burden of maternal, fetal, and child mortality. It has made slow progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 and in addressing common social determinants of health. The country also h...
[Comment] Pakistan: health is an opportunity to be seized
Pakistan occupies a special place in global health for at least four reasons. First, Pakistan is a phenomenally research productive nation. The country's imprint in The Lancet, for example, is extraordinary, and extends over many decades—from optim...
[Comment] Learning from disasters to save lives every day in Pakistan
Pakistan faces a challenging array of complex humanitarian crises. Political instability, conflict, entrenched poverty, and natural disasters are all too common and devastating. Threats to public health, particularly after large-scale disasters such...
[Comment] Family planning: a missing priority in Pakistan's health sector?
According to Alex Ezeh and colleagues, “Pakistan's failure to promote family planning in the 1970s and 1980s” has already had, and will lead to, great repercussions: a population that is anticipated to be “41% larger than Bangladesh's” by 205...
[Comment] Infectious diseases in Pakistan: a clear and present danger
Many diseases are common in Pakistan, including endemic and epidemic infectious diseases, emerging infections, and an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases. An estimated 8–9 million people in Pakistan are infected with the hepatitis C viru...
[Comment] Philanthropic funding for health in Pakistan
Although increasing use of technology continues to escalate health-care costs, Pakistan's experience shows how in a low-income country that allocates little public funding for the health sector, more privileged individuals are assisting those who are...
[Comment] Medical education and research in Pakistan
The construction of health facilities, establishment of medical schools, and recruitment of health workers in the public sector have been important aspects of a popular political agenda in Pakistan, especially for elected governments. According to of...
[Comment] GBD 2.0: a continuously updated global resource
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) provides a comprehensive and coherent assessment of the state of the world's health from 1990 to 2010. Countries are experiencing a complex set of changes in health problems and their underlying caus...
[Perspectives] Sadiqua Jafarey: mother to a nation
Political violence seems to be a fact of life in Pakistan, and the run-up to the country's elections in May was no exception. But behind the shocking headlines, there are signs that some things could be moving in the right direction. In a country wit...
Americans should lower salt intake but not too much, review says
Americans should lower their sodium intake, currently about 3400 mg/day, but there is no evidence supporting an intake level below 2300 mg/day, the Institute of Medicine has said in a new report.1The...
Vermont governor agrees to sign bill on physician assisted suicide
Vermont is on the verge of becoming the third US state to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who request the prescriptions.Oregon and Washington states...
Number of organ donations to strangers trebled last year
A charity has hailed new figures showing a marked rise in the number of living people donating organs to someone they do not know.The Human Tissue Authority, which assesses all proposed transplants...
Assisted suicide for the dying would reduce suffering, says Falconer
A private member’s bill to legalise physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in England and Wales has been tabled in the House of Lords by a former Labour lord chancellor, Charles...
Autopsies using MRIs in babies and infants could help improve uptake rates
A large study has found that postmortem examinations in fetuses and infants up to 12 months using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and blood tests are as accurate as conventional...
Under-5 child mortality falls by almost 40% over 20 years in countries with worst record, WHO says
The millennium development goals (MDGs) have helped improve health in the poorest countries but differences remain both within and between these countries, a World Health Organization report...
OFSTED style ratings for hospitals are not specific enough for patient procedures, Francis says
Rating hospitals in the same way that the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services, and Skills (OFSTED) rates schools—an idea proposed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt—“may help” but...
Cochrane researchers continue to face challenges over access to data on flu drugs
bmj;346/may16_4/f3190/FIGF1figCochrane Collaboration researchers have said that they may be unable to analyse clinical trial data given to them by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the antiviral drug...
