Smart textiles for personalized healthcare

A Libanori, G Chen, X Zhao, Y Zhou, J Chen - Nature Electronics, 2022 - nature.com
Incorporating sensing and therapeutic capabilities into everyday textiles could be a powerful
approach in the development of personalized healthcare. The creation of such smart textiles …

[HTML][HTML] The Lancet Commission on diagnostics: transforming access to diagnostics

KA Fleming, S Horton, ML Wilson, R Atun, K DeStigter… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary At the end of 2019, the first reports of a new respiratory virus appeared
in China. The subsequent COVID-19 pandemic has affected every person, in every country …

Multifunctional fiber‐enabled intelligent health agents

M Chen, P Li, R Wang, Y Xiang, Z Huang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The application of wearable devices is promoting the development toward digitization and
intelligence in the field of health. However, the current smart devices centered on human …

Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

FM Knaul, PE Farmer, EL Krakauer, L De Lima… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in
Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language …

Sustainable care for children with cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission

R Atun, N Bhakta, A Denburg, AL Frazier… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
We estimate that there will be 13· 7 million new cases of childhood cancer globally between
2020 and 2050. At current levels of health system performance (including access and …

[HTML][HTML] Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for …

H Wang, M Naghavi, C Allen, RM Barber, ZA Bhutta… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations
requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of …

Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation

DT Jamison, LH Summers, G Alleyne, KJ Arrow… - The lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development
Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a …

An official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM policy statement: responding to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments in intensive care units

GT Bosslet, TM Pope, GD Rubenfeld, B Lo… - American Journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Background: There is controversy about how to manage requests by patients or surrogates
for treatments that clinicians believe should not be administered. Purpose: This multisociety …

[HTML][HTML] How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies: a global analysis of response patterns

L Zhang, W Zhao, B Sun, Y Huang, W Glänzel - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
As of the middle of April 2020, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more
than 137,000 lives (https://coronavirus. jhu. edu/map. html). Because of its extremely fast …

Action to address the household economic burden of non-communicable diseases

S Jan, TL Laba, BM Essue, A Gheorghe, J Muhunthan… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
The economic burden on households of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including
cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, and diabetes, poses major …