Wrote something very close to my heart and making little me proud ❤️ Please read and share some love/hate/doubt 🙌🏽
The ‘Amar Chitra Katha’ of a Muslim millennial https://t.co/4oCIxGfisn via @IndianExpress
“There is an urgent need to ensure their use is safe”
More people are turning to AI chatbots for health questions—from symptoms to clinical reports. A new Editorial explores what that means for primary care.
Read in The Lancet Primary Care: https://t.co/rE3MXfMZLm https://t.co/NwenIsJQzS
Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know
[an open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation”]
It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?”
Please read it here: https://t.co/8cLFlQ82He
“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel & ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource grabbing, bomb dropping imperial power & its allies, who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”
Arundhati Roy
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 👉 https://t.co/fJMXEylZF2
For the first time in India, a State has formulated a comprehensive Urban Policy.
Kerala, the fastest urbanizing state had foreseen the change early. A commission led by Prof. M. Satish Kumar of Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland studied inputs from 3,000 people and produced a 2,500-page report. Now, the LDF Government has turned that vision into policy.
#KeralaModel #UrbanPolicy #LSGD #LDFGovernment #KeralaLeads
Global health has long relied on a siloed, disease-centric approach that creates vulnerabilities and concentrates funding, expertise and healthcare capacity in the Global North.
Link:https://t.co/nCJdBzn2l1
#globalhealth#bmj#commentary#preventivecare
Cancer prevention isn’t about chance—it’s about systems. Cancer risks drop when you regulate tobacco, prevent infections, breathe clean air, eat healthy and nutritious food, and choose vaccines.
Did you know? Nearly 40% of cancers are preventable. Of that 40%, there are three cancers that account for nearly half of all preventable cancers.
🔗 https://t.co/rnoIgQsbUX
📈 JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: The 2023 ACOG guideline recommends selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (#SSRIs), used intermittently or continuously, as effective for managing affective symptoms of #premenstrual disorders.
https://t.co/tPFzcekAcw
"The Commission provides a solid foundation not just for internal strengthening of India's health system, but also for advancing its position globally."
Our Editorial discusses the new Lancet Commission on a citizen-centred health system for India.
Read now: https://t.co/M9fhzOonPk
GenAI has the potential to worsen health inequities. In a new review @NatureHealthJnl we show that with intent, confronting the challenges, it could be just the opposite, globally @nliulab
https://t.co/jwmslSVIV1
"...the climate is not merely a backdrop to human life, it is embedded in who we are and how we live."
A Comment discusses the complex relationship between climate change, human migration, and health: https://t.co/82QiLcPWkO
Evidence-based scientific innovation is driving better health outcomes around the world.
New medicines and vaccines are saving lives from diseases once thought to be among the most daunting.
In 2025, there were several important health gains. Our responsibility now is to protect these achievements, extend their benefits to all, and continue to uphold and invest in science to achieve #HealthForAll.
https://t.co/yXeLzclnYN
In high-risk pregnancies, there is no reliable intervention to reduce term pre-eclampsia.
A new study investigated the effect of screening for pre-eclampsia risk at 36 weeks' gestation and offering risk-stratified, planned, early-term birth: https://t.co/szTJrQNweN