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A notice sets out how the agency intends to designate every US area for the 9.0 microgram 2024 fine-particle standard. Comments close 5 November; a court has ordered final designations by 6 February 2027.
A randomised trial enrolled 3,259 underserved people referred for lung cancer screening. Adding free medication to standard advice did not raise quit rates; adding financial incentives roughly doubled them — to 8.8%.
A meta-analysis of 15 cohorts found 45% of deaths in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were classed as avoidable — about 3.6 times the rate in people without disabilities, on rich-country data.
GUARDIAN offered parents of 4,000 babies a genomic screen for 156 treatable conditions on top of the standard heel-prick. Most said yes, and sequencing worked in 99.6% of cases.
A trial across 24 Zambian clinics found a person-centred care package lifted the share of patients in care a year after a treatment gap from 51.5% to 60.1%, and halved repeat interruptions.
In the RESPOND randomised trial, guided self-help and remote problem-solving delivered by non-professionals cut anxiety and depression scores well below usual care at follow-up.
US mortality is roughly two-fold higher in Black men, but when care and treatment are equal — in the military health system and in trials — the stage-for-stage survival gap largely disappears.
In the LATA trial across four countries, 0.9% of teens on long-acting cabotegravir–rilpivirine lost viral suppression by 96 weeks, versus 6.4% on daily tablets — a superiority result.
A pooled analysis of 315,403 adults finds wealth inequalities in hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol care grow across the care cascade — but the biggest treatment gaps are not where most heart risk could be averted.
Using 245,388 genomes from the US All of Us programme, researchers built risk scores for 32 traits. More diversity helped prediction in under-represented groups — but a bigger sample was not always better.
A controlled study tied Scotland's minimum unit price to a 13.4% fall in deaths wholly caused by alcohol, largest in the most deprived areas. The effect on hospital admissions was smaller and not significant.
A modelling study of 93 household surveys corrects for the chronic underreporting that hides stillbirths, and finds steady but socially unequal declines in perinatal mortality since 1990.
Pooled diagnostic accuracy is high in specialist settings, but performance falls on Fitzpatrick IV–VI skin and on smartphone images, and most studies never report skin tone at all.
A five-year panel study found sales of mental-disorder medicines rose 144% in a cyclone's landfall year and 173% the next in coastal districts, with no measurable effect further inland.
Green-light pulse sensors raise a real concern about melanin, but independent tests find the skin-tone effect small next to device and movement errors — and the validation studies barely include darker skin.
A meta-analysis of 155 studies puts photo-based skin diagnosis close to a face-to-face visit for common conditions. For skin cancer the agreement is lower, and hinges on dermoscopy.
A meta-analysis of 28 studies and 684,065 people links intimate partner violence to raised odds of neonatal, infant and under-5 death — the association strongest for sexual violence.
A modelling study estimates near-universal kangaroo care would avert 1.6 million disability-adjusted life-years and shield 57,000 households from catastrophic health costs, with most gains among the poorest.
A meta-analysis of more than 155,000 children finds mortality is elevated even at oxygen saturations of 90–94%, above the threshold at which WHO advises hospital oxygen.
Applying the 2025 AHA/ACC guideline to a Nigerian survey sharply raised the share classified hypertensive versus older criteria, widening the gap between diagnosis and treatment capacity.
The beliefs — that Black patients' skin is thicker, their nerve endings less sensitive — predicted lower pain ratings and less accurate treatment recommendations for a Black patient in the same experiment.
The reform followed an investigation into training quality at some foreign schools. It is also projected to disproportionately affect Arab professionals, a large share of those graduates.
The national framework tracking First Nations health finds real progress on smoking, education and specific diseases, alongside no movement on infant mortality and worsening suicide.
Fatal disease burden fell 10% in two decades. Non-fatal burden — the toll of living with illness rather than dying from it — rose 7% over the same period. Mental health diagnoses in young adults nearly doubled.
A national analysis of 2,985 haemorrhage deaths from 2015 to 2024 found no significant change over time — and Indigenous women dying at 2.87 times the rate of White women.
A Lancet Digital Health scoping review found the field's fairness metrics fragmented and rarely clinically validated. A second review found that most studies don't measure fairness at all.
A 121-country model finds health-system emissions are as unequally distributed as the care itself — and that cutting them may not require cutting care.
A modelling analysis puts 2.75 million children under five in sub-Saharan Africa living with sickle cell disease. Seven African countries have transplant programmes; approved gene therapies cost millions.
A global estimate across 8,919 urban areas finds both numbers are true at once — and that the cooling lands hardest in the places that need it least.
A study running 5.3 million evaluations through nine large language models found eligibility judgments were largely stable across identity labels — except when a patient vignette mentioned homelessness.
A linked-registry cohort of New South Wales residents from 2001 to 2018 finds cancer risk in people with intellectual disability inverts with age — higher when young, lower after 50.
It is a wellness feature, not a cleared pulse oximeter, and it inherits pulse oximetry's known skin-tone bias. A patent fight also stripped it from US watches for about 19 months.
A 14-year national analysis finds temperature-related death rates rising fastest in the group that started highest — and the same pattern in cold deaths, which fell for everyone else.
An 11,018-measurement study in 24 English intensive care units found false negative rates up to 35.3 percentage points higher in patients with darker skin tones. A neonatal study published two days later did not.
In 132 Minnesota school athletes, each step up a housing-based measure of socioeconomic status predicted about 24% fewer days to return-to-play clearance. Childhood adversity did not lengthen recovery.
Physicians editing AI drafts wrote better notes than they did unaided, and worse notes than the AI produced alone. Both directions of that result matter.
Across 90,670 virtual encounters at one US health system, phone visits scored lower on likelihood to recommend. A separate VA cohort of 1.2 million found telehealth cut same-day mental health access sharply.
The 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations took effect in September 2025, adding a 'pandemic emergency' tier. The United States formally rejected them.