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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 11h

How Physicians Can Prepare for Generative AI | Digital Health
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How Physicians Can Prepare for Generative AI

This Viewpoint discusses basic skills for using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how to take an active role implementing AI into patient care.

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 11h

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Report proposes new framework to prepare for future pandemics

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 11h

The 2025 GPMB report, The New Face of Pandemic Preparedness
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 11h

Innovation in medicines for global health: a 20-year landscape analysis
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Innovation in medicines for global health: a 20-year landscape analysis

Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 12h

Forest Declaration Assessment 2025
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Forest Declaration Assessment 2025 - Forest Declaration Assessment

Global forests are still in crisis is not the headline we wanted to report this year. Deforestation remains stubbornly high, with little progress to show for the last decade or more of pledges.

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 16h

Lessons from Peru: climate and weather drives dengue fever risk
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Lessons from Peru: what Australia can learn about the growing risk of dengue fever

Australia is increasingly at risk of dengue fever outbreaks, but research from Peru can provide clues on how to deal with it.

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 21h

Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025
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Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025

This new WHO report presents a global analysis of antibiotic resistance prevalence and trends, drawing on more than 23 million bacteriologically confirmed cases of bloodstream infections, urinary trac...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 1d

Text message surveillance for rapid salmonella outbreak detection: a novel public health approach
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Text message surveillance for rapid salmonella outbreak detection: a novel public health approach | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core

Text message surveillance for rapid salmonella outbreak detection: a novel public health approach - Volume 153

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 1d

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Lessons Learned in the Response to Multiple Cases of Exertional Hyperthermia at an Urban Half Marathon | Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness | Cambridge Core

Lessons Learned in the Response to Multiple Cases of Exertional Hyperthermia at an Urban Half Marathon - Volume 19

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 1d

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UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Global Burden of Disease 2023
Findings from the GBD 2023 Study
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023
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Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a system...

Our findings underscore the complex and dynamic nature of global health challenges. Since 2010, there have been large decreases in burden due to CMNN diseases and many environmental and behavioural ri...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023
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Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

We examined global mortality patterns over the past three decades, highlighting—with enhanced estimation methods—the impacts of major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to broader trend...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023
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Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Di...

This analysis identified several key differences in mortality trends from previous estimates, including higher rates of adolescent mortality, higher rates of young adult mortality in females, and lowe...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Data for Everyone’s Health
Optimising public health intelligence: challenges, opportunities and ways forward
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 2d

Harnessing artificial intelligence for enhanced public health surveillance: a narrative review
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Frontiers | Harnessing artificial intelligence for enhanced public health surveillance: a narrative review

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a transformative potential to revolutionize public health by addressing critical challenges in disease prevention, outbreak ...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 3d

Advancing Surveillance of Health Care–Associated Infections — Targeting Hospital-Onset Sepsis
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Advancing Surveillance of Health Care–Associated Infections — Targeting Hospital-Onset Sepsis | NEJM

Current surveillance and prevention targets for U.S. hospitals overlook important health care–associated infections. Surveillance of hospital-onset sepsis offers an opportunity to expand these efforts...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 4d

A decision framework for effective, equitable and context-specific public health and social measures during public health emergencies
decision navigator
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 4d

Health: a political choice – the Future of Health in a fractured world

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HaPC 2025

HaPC 2025 - HaPC

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

Webinar: Advancing responsible digital technologies for global health
Tuesday, 21st October 2025
13h00 – 14h00 CEST
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

Navigating the landscape of medical artificial intelligence reporting guidelines - The Lancet Digital Health
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Navigating the landscape of medical artificial intelligence reporting guidelines

The Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool (CHART) guidelines, published in the BMJ and other journals in August, 2025, advise on the reporting of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots. R...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging | Science
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A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging

Efficient DNA repair might make possible the longevity of naked mole-rats. However, whether they have distinctive mechanisms to optimize functions of DNA repair suppressors is unclear. We find that na...

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

Release of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 study at the World Health Summit on October 12.
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Launch of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 | KEY 02

YouTube video by World Health Summit

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

Initiatives on Reimagining Global Health Architecture
A Primer
Clara Greiner, Nina Schwalbe, Susanna Lehtimaki

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 5d

The Impact of Medical Cannabis Laws on Cannabis and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose-Related Health Care Utilization Among Adults With Chronic Noncancer Pain
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The Impact of Medical Cannabis Laws on Cannabis and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose-Related Health Care Utilization Among Adults With Chronic Noncancer Pain | Milbank Quarterly

State medical cannabis laws, currently in place in 39 states and Washington, DC, provide an avenue for therapeutic use of cannabis to manage chronic noncancer pain stemming from conditions such as art...

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