70 years ago this year, a researcher at University College of the West Indies in Jamaica published a paper in The Lancet describing a case series of patients with diabetes who did not have the typical hallmarks of type 1 or type 2 disease. They were young, underweight, resistant to insulin, and did not tend to have ketoacidosis. The condition was coined J-type diabetes, after Jamaica, and it was briefly recognised by WHO as malnutrition-related diabetes. However, WHO removed it from its...
Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis. What does this mean for patients in terms of the affordability of potentially long-term management? How are government-run social health insurance schemes working for individuals and their families? And what might be the individual-level drivers of catastro...
In a resource-constrained setting like Bangladesh, what proportion of a hospital's capacity is taken up with admissions for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)? How many children needing admission are turned away every year because of lack of bed space? And how many of these "denials" and subsequent deaths might be prevented by the introduction of a maternal RSV vaccine or the monoclonal antibody nirsevimab? Listen to Senjuti Saha, Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Fo...
Carina King and Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman outline the purpose and main findings of the new Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security and their hopes for its impact. Read the Commission: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/medical-oxygen-security?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_langlooxygen25_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linke...
Hasin Jahan, Country Director of WaterAid Bangladesh, speaks to Lauren Southwell about water contamination in Bangladesh, how it affects the communities that live there, and how it is exacerbated by climate events. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv
Daniel Symons speaks to Dr Joe Bresee of the Task Force for Global Health on the threat posed by influenza H5N1, vaccine strategies, and strengthening systems to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv
This podcast is in Portuguese. Episódio abordando saúde na Amazônia, destacando a telemedicina e tecnologias digitais como soluções para desafios de acessibilidade com o Dr Cleinaldo Costa. Discute barreiras tecnológicas, sensibilidade cultural, sustentabilidade, participação dos trabalhadores locais e inovações para melhorar o atendimento. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thel...
Mohamed Aden Ahmed, Deputy Head of Missions and Operations in West Darfur for MSF, speaks to Lauren Southwell about the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the subsequent effects on health care and health-care workers. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv
Prof. Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, speaks to Zoë Mullan about overcoming inertia, using data for action, and global health as a truly global - rather than LMIC - issue. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv
Zoë Mullan talks to Prof Kara Hanson of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research and Dr Michael Makanga of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership on funding for research involving collaborators in the Global North and Global South and how it can be made more equitable. Visit The Lancet Global Health at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/home Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://ins...
Liam Messin, of The Lancet Global Health, speaks to Michael Udedi and Kazione Kulisewa about implementation science and mental health in Malawi. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00592-2/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/compan...
Georgia Bisbas of The Lancet Global Health talks to Kathy Baisley and Ruanne Barnabas about their trials on immunobridging and HPV vaccine efficacy in Tanzania and Kenya. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00586-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljou...
Lauren Southwell of The Lancet Global Health talks to Authia Gray and Kevin Ikuta about the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region during 2019. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00539-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljour...
Fio Trethewey of The Lancet Global Health talks to Clara Frick and Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram about their research on premature cancer mortality which included a population-based study looking into preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00406-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.socia...
Amana Baig of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Madeleine Ballard and Biziweck Malitoni about the labour exploitation of community health worker systems. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00357-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedI...
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Carolina Coll and Joe Murray about their research investigating the association between maternal parenting and intimate partner violence. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00282-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thel...
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Rizwana Chaudhri and Professor Ian Roberts about their research investigating the association between maternal anaemia and post-partum haemorrhage. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00245-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://fa...
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Xiang Wu and Maha Aon, who recently served as guest editors for the 10th Anniversary issue of The Lancet Global Health, about successes and challenges in the field of global health. Read the Editorial from our 10th Anniversary issue: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00275-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.so...
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany and Dr Augustine Asante about Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme and how its benefits and challenges impact especially the country’s poorest. This has important lessons for other Governments across the world also seeking to understand Universal Health Coverage. Read the full article: The benefits and burden of health financing in Indonesia Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://th...
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Simon Wigley and Dr Luke Allen about their research investigating the implementation of global non-communicable disease policy worldwide. Read the full article: Non-communicable disease policy implementation from 2014 to 2021: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of global policy data for 194 countries Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https:...
Tom MacDonald
very poor interview