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...governments of many sub-Saharan African countries receive aid from other countries and international organizations to supplement their domestic health spending. But according to the study, published in The Lancet earlier this month, the addition of these funds often leads governments to divert the money they planned to dedicate to health to other areas...
Researchers say they've found a way to keep more newborns alive in the poorest corners of eastern India: Get their mothers talking. A report published in The Lancet medical journal last month suggests that gathering women together for monthly chats on sound pregnancy practices and reproductive health may drastically cut neonatal mortality rates in rural communities. "Too many people in the health community think that health is about delivering little magic bullets to passive poor people," says Anthony Costello of University College London's Institute of Child Health, which spearheaded the project. "What that doesn...
...July 2009, experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon—the cancer branch of the World Health Organization—published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology their research stating that tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation are causes of cancer. Tanning beds are now considered to be as deadly as arsenic and mustard...
...other failures, Wakefield neglected to disclose that he was a paid adviser in legal cases involving families suing vaccine manufacturers for harm to their children. It appears that he also handpicked children for his research rather than including patients he encountered at his clinic--another deception cited by the Lancet editors...
...with the Lancet's formal retraction of Wakefield's paper, the question is whether the vaccine theory of autism may finally be put to rest. But that seems unlikely. Since 1998, numerous studies have found no link between vaccines and autism, yet parents' fears have endured. Indeed, vaccination rates in the U.K., which dropped after the publication of Wakefield's paper, never fully rebounded, and measles cases later took off. The number of cases has also risen...