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Saleha Hassan, Senior Editor at The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from polio eradication in Africa to COVID-19 vaccines in Hong Kong, the treatment of early syphilis in adults to Mpox in the UK, and more.
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The Lancet News is a weekly podcast brought to you by The Lancet. Our editors, Tim Dehnel and Dara Mohammadi, report on important, interesting, and sometimes quirky health-related happenings from around the world, while providing a rundown of the latest news from The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Neurology, and The Lancet Oncology.
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Prasad Kulkarni discusses a new Phase I trial in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on a dengue monoclonal antibody also known as VIS513 in healthy adults. In addition, he highlights the wider implications of this for dengue control and drug development. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/ S1473-3099(24)00030-6/ful…
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Oriol Mitjà discusses a new trial in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on the use of oral linezolid compared with benzathine penicillin G for the treatment of early syphilis in adults. He also highlights what the trial means for treatment of syphilis. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00683-7/ful…
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Sofia Viegas and Stefan Niemann discuss a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases about emerging bedaquiline resistance in Mozambique and its implications for drug resistant tuberculosis and the fight to end tuberculosis. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00498-X/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprou…
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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.…
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Louis Pasteur was involved in the creation of the first rabies vaccine in the 1880s, but today one person every ten minutes still dies from rabies, with all of the deaths concentrated in low and middle-income countries. Prof. Katie Hampson joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the history of the vaccine and why it's proven so difficult to eliminate…
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Luciano Moreira and Henrik Salje discuss a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the use of the Wolbachia bacteria to control the spread of mosquito-borne dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read the full article: Estimating the effect of the wMel release programme on the incidence of dengue and chikungunya in Rio d…
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Richard Maude discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that assesses the efficacy of malaria chemoprophylaxis among forest goers in Cambodia. Read the full article: Antimalarial chemoprophylaxis for forest goers in southeast Asia Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://insta…
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Ben Cowling discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the protection that vaccines are providing against COVID-19 in Hong Kong. Read the full article: Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against COVID-19 in Hong Kong Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https…
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Hugh Adler discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the management and the clinical features for seven patients with monkeypox hospitalised in the UK between 2018 and 2021. Read the full article: Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK Continue this conversation …
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Prof Beate Kampmann, Dr Karen Keddy, and Prof Peter Ghazal discuss a new cross-journal Series in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and EBioMedicine addressing the potential for and challenge of applying big data to childhood infectious diseases in LMICs. Read the full Series: https://www.thelancet.com/series/big-data-childhood-infections-LMICs Continu…
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A new article highlights how changing immunity profiles motivate the need for better responses to outbreaks of polio in Africa. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00453-9/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://instagram.com/the…
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Paul Chapman and colleagues presents the results of an innovative trial assessing the safety of vaccinating healthy volunteers with attenuated Necator americanus hookworm larvae. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00153-5/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... http…
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Josep Llibre discusses a trial on the impact of same-day testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection before a concert on new COVID-19 cases in Barcelona, Spain. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00268-1/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet htt…
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Bruce Biccard and Dean Gopalan discuss their work looking at the poor outcomes for COVID-19 hospital patients across Africa, the first study of its kind, and Kwame McKenzie talks about how Canada has dealt with COVID-19 and what lessons have been learned about health equity.By The Lancet
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