Siân Crucefix

Reporting of research with adolescent and youth engagement Active engagement of adolescents and youth in adolescent-focused studies aims to improve the quality of research and the translation of findings into everyday care, and to give researchers a greater u...

📣 New Comment on reporting of research with #Adolescents and #Youth engagement as part of the
@thelancet.com Commission on #AdolescentHealth

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#YouthHealth #MedSky @jasonmnagata.bsky.social

Lancet Commission here 👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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New editorial:

Facts and myths about measles

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“avoiding ‘anticipatory compliance’”

🆕 The Lancet Group’s editorial statement in response to recent US executive orders (February 10th, 2025): www.thelancet.com/editorial-po...

Should science be political? At this point in time, with US President Trump's administration attacking institutions such as the US CDC, NIH, USAID, WHO, and their people and functions, whether science should be political seems li...

New editorial: Should science be political?

We stand with scientists affected by Trump's attacks on science and global health

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A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

The Lancet Editorial in full

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

Our latest Editorial, a response: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social

Volker Türk on LinkedIn: Social media shapes society and has immense potential to enhance lives and… | 11 comments Social media shapes society and has immense potential to enhance lives and connect us. It also has demonstrated ability to fuel conflict, incite hatred and… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

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“Freedom of expression thrives when diverse voices can be heard without enabling harm or disinformation.”

💬 Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey? A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards.1,2 As editors and members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we receive queries about these “predatory” or “pseudo” entities and are subject to their deception when they target our authors and reviewers. The number of predatory journals is difficult to accurately determine but was estimated at more than 15 000 in 2021.3 While the ICMJE Recommendations include warnings about predatory publishing,4 the Committee believes that the large number of increasingly bold predatory entities warrants shining a bright light on them and considering actions stakeholders can take to counter their deceptive efforts.

“These deceptive practices endanger authors, academic institutions...science, and the public.”

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) shines a light on predatory journals and the actions stakeholders can take to protect against them. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🖼️ ⬆️ Figure above from the Lancet paper: Deaths averted, years of life saved, and years of full health gained due to vaccination.

📌 As attempts to undermine confidence in vaccines continue, we must keep reminding people of the safety, effectiveness, and extraordinary value vaccination provides.

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50 years. In the context of strengthening primary health care, our results show that equitable universal access to immunisation remains crucial to sustain health gains and continue to save future lives from preventable infectious mortality.

Half a decade later, at least 154 million lives have been saved globally.

That’s according to an analysis published in @thelancet.bsky.social last year ➡️ bit.ly/3DGoQlf

Figure from the Lancet paper: Deaths averted, years of life saved, and years of full health gained due to vaccination.

No time like the present to big up vaccination 💉✨

In 1974, the World Health Organization launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Why? High rates of vaccine-preventable disease.

For the reading list 📚

Happy New Year! We should catch up once back properly…

US surgeon general calls for cancer warnings on alcoholic drinks - BBC News Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says warning labels should be updated to increase awareness of links to seven types of cancer.

After being a small part of @who.int Europe’s Evidence into Action Alcohol Project, I consider this an encouraging development.

Education and informed choices ✅

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GREAT film. Enjoy!

January cover showing a woman in a sari walking on a syringe over the open mouth of a dog, credit Lillian Li

The Lancet Infectious Diseases' January issue is out!

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Some highlights below 👇

First of all, a warm welcome to our new cover artist, Lillian Li, who won our yearly cover competition inspired by an article on rabies in India.

Fact: Covid vaccines saved millions of lives

Also a fact: With equitable access to vaccines, millions more could have been saved

Battling misinformation and disinformation

naccurate information about diseases, treatments and vaccines undermines trust in science and public health. It threatens global health by distorting public perception and eroding confidence in evidence-based policies. During emergencies and conflicts, misinformation exacerbates health crises by fostering confusion and fear and diverting resources from a coordinated response. This erosion of public trust is leaving populations vulnerable to preventable diseases and fueling inequities.

WHO continues to fight against misinformation and disinformation—a great challenge to global health. Governments, health agencies, and partners need to safeguard public trust by responding to misinformation and disinformation directly and effectively.

Cover of Thursday’s issue which I wrote the cover story for about Gisèle Pelicot as person of the year 2024

On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault
It is my proudest writing.
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YouTube algorithms consistently push eating disorder and self-harm content to teen girls, new study finds Study released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate confirms YouTube algorithms consistently push eating disorder and self-harm content to teen girls.

🚨NEW: YouTube is sending young girls down a dangerous rabbit hole by recommending eating disorder & self-harm content. 

We tested the experience of a 13-year-old girl on YouTube a hundred times – and the results were disturbing 🧵

TW: eating disorders & self-harm
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Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

“Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?”

An interesting read in @natureportfolio.bsky.social today ⤵️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Lancet is now on BlueSky 🦋

Thanks to my Comms colleagues for getting this up and running.