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The Lancet

Preconception malnutrition among women and girls in south Asia: prevalence, determinants, and association with pregnancy and birth outcomes

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24 Apr 2025

A review that highlights the growing double burden of malnutrition among women of reproductive age in South Asia, highlighting the need for tailored, context-specific interventions and more comprehensive, longitudinal studies to inform and monitor nu...

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Nature Reviews Nephrology

Kidney disease is a worldwide killer. Treat it that way

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24 Apr 2025

The Nature editorial urges World Health Assembly delegates, meeting on 19 May 2025, to back a resolution led by Guatemala that would recognize chronic kidney disease (CKD)—which affects an estimated 8.5 percent of the global population and is a rap...

ArticleMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Palliative Medicine Reports

Palliative Care in Public Policy: Results from a Global Survey

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16 Apr 2025

Background: Public policy has been a foundational component of the World Health Organization public health model for palliative care development since 1990. There is, however, limited evidence on the existence and character of palliative care policy...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+4

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Lancet Oncology

The changing global landscape of national cancer control plans

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16 Apr 2025

Global efforts to highlight cancer and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as a growing burden were first raised in 2005 World Health Assembly Resolution 58.22 and reinforced with Resolution 70.12 and the Global NCD action plan in 2017. One common threa...

ArticleCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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The Lancet, World Diabetes Foundation

The need for a type 1 diabetes scorecard

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15 Apr 2025

The article reviews the urgent need to address diabetes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where prevalence is rising rapidly. It discusses barriers such as limited access to care, low health literacy, and resource constraints that hinder e...

ArticleDiabetesMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and services+1

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HEALTH GROUPS FILE SECOND LAWSUIT AGAINST THE US FDA

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02 Apr 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 2, 2024 – The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC), Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), and the National Medical Association (NMA), represented by Christopher Leung of Leung Law PLLC, have filed a se...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCivil Society Working GroupSocial determinants of healthTobacco use+6

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Journal of Migration and Health

Research priorities for cardiometabolic syndrome in humanitarian settings: A global consensus-based agenda

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24 Mar 2025

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. The burden of NCDs largely falls on low- and middle- income countries, where the majority of humanitarian crises fall. Already fragile health care systems in acut...

ArticleEmergency preparedness, prevention and response

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BMJ Global Health

Integrating tobacco cessation in chronic respiratory disease care: a comprehensive approach to reducing the global burden

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21 Mar 2025

This newly published commentary in BMJ Global Health highlights the urgent need to integrate tobacco cessation into chronic respiratory disease (CRD) care as a key strategy to reduce the global burden of CRDs.It presents a comprehensive approach that...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesAccess to essential medicines and servicesTobacco use+3

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International Society of Nephrology

Systematic Scoping Review of Socioeconomic Burden and Associated Psychosocial Impact in Patients With Rare Kidney Diseases and Their Caregivers

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10 Mar 2025

Rare kidney diseases constitute a significant public health challenge but have attracted limited research investment. The evidence about the socioeconomic burden of rare kidney diseases has not been systematically examined. Such evidence is critical...

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World Obesity Day 2025: Campaign Toolkit

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03 Mar 2025

World Obesity Day 2025:&nbsp;Let’s put a spotlight on the systemsFor too long, responses to the obesity crisis have been focused on individuals. It’s time we turn our attention to the systems that are failing us. Health systems, government system...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsMultisectoral ActionNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets+7

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The Lancet

Age-sex-specific burden of urological cancers attributable to risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990-2021, and forecasts with scenarios simulation: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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01 Mar 2025

The study provides a systemic assessment of age-sex-specific burden of major urological cancers in China over a three-decade span (1990-2021) using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) dataset.&nbsp;

ArticleCancer

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Pediatric Blood & Cancer

The Lived Experience of Childhood Cancer Survivors and Their Parents: A Multi-National Study of Access to Survivorship Care and Information and Support Needs HQ Cancer Team

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18 Feb 2025

1 in 5 people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Nearly every family around the world is affected by cancer, either directly or as caregivers of someone who has had cancer. A cancer diagnosis can have a profound effect on the health and wel...

ArticleCancerMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experiences
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