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🔔 Introducing The Lancet Regional Health – Africa, a new #goldopenaccess journal promoting the advancement of clinical practice and health policy in Africa.

Explore the new journal at hubs.li/Q03KzMp00 #MedSky
A special preview issue of The Lancet Regional Health – Africa. On the cover is a photograph of a doctor examining a Maasai baby. Copyright: Hugh Sitton/Getty Images
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What if we could make research more transparent and inclusive?

Join Mabel Chew and other Lancet Group editors to explore how we can improve health outcomes through better reporting of race and ethnicity data.

📆 Oct 23, 11am BST
👉 Register: hubs.li/Q03GrSg00
Lancet Webinar graphic with text "Join Mabel Chew for our Lancet Webinar on reporting race and ethnicity data in Lancet journals: a pathway to improving health outcomes and equity in research and clinical practice on Thurs, Oct 22, 2025 at 11am BST/12pm CEST." With the Lancet Webinars logo. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.
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Melioidosis—it's a fatal but preventable infection. Why is it not classed as a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD)? Sophie Cousins reports in The Lancet.

Read in the latest issue 👉 tinyurl.com/zz65vbup
Cover of The Lancet, Oct 11 issue. The quote, "Melioidosis is a disease so neglected it is not on WHO's list of Neglected Tropical Diseases."
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 2d
Oncolytic viruses have the unique ability to selectively replicate within (and to destroy) cancer cells, offering a promising approach in cancer treatment.

A new Review summarises clinical progress, remaining challenges, & future research directions: tinyurl.com/9667u3ab
Figure: Oncolytic viruses—increasing the heat of the tumour microenvironment. Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 3d
Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disease that causes blood clots and inflammation.

A recent Review in @thelancetrheum.bsky.social explores how AI algorithms can guide precision medicine in antiphospholipid syndrome: tinyurl.com/yc4ursr9
Figure showing molecular fingerprints associated with thrombotic APS. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
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What can Africa’s fight against HIV teach us about tackling today’s global health challenges? 🌍

Pleased to share Dr Mohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social will join the panel at our International Health Lecture with @thelancet.com, bringing his expertise in research ethics to the discussion 🔬✨
A photo of Dr Mohammad Hosseini, with a quote that reads: "Fostering trust in science requires well-informed, collaborative and critically thinking communities, supported by mechanisms that ensure transparency and accountability."
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The treatment of type 1 diabetes is entering a transformative era.

A recent Review explores three paradigm-shifting developments poised to transform type 1 diabetes treatment: tinyurl.com/2834ymk7
Figure showing the production and transplantation of β cells derived from embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells. Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY 4.0.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 4d
Maternal wellbeing has been described in the literature, but no consensus on a global definition is available 🌍

Introducing “Maternal wellbeing: a WHO definition and conceptual framework”, now in @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/ytj8umfs
Maternal wellbeing concepts. Copyrights: WHO/Adrien Liard.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 5d
📊 Join Gavin Cleaver for a webinar exploring essential insights on sex- and gender-based research analyses. Learn about the SAGER guidelines, see real examples, and get practical tips for responding to the guidelines.

📅 21 October, 2pm BST
👉 Register: hubs.li/Q03FQ_6l0
Join Gavin Cleaver for our Lancet Webinar on the importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender on Tues, Oct 21, 2025 at 2pm BST/9am EDT. The Lancet Webinars. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.
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📸 One month left to submit your photos!

If you've taken an image that brings a health story to life, enter it in our Lancet Highlights photography competition.

Submit by Nov 12—on any health-related topic and from any country or setting. More info: tinyurl.com/28pmu4m2
Promotional card for The Lancet's Highlights photography competition.
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