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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is rapidly transforming cancer care, with electronic patient-reported outcomes showing clear benefits for symptom management, quality of life, and even survival in some settings. Despite these benefits, implementation in routine care remains challenging. But as digital health expands, are we unintentionally leaving some patients behind? In this episode, Eléna Prospe...

Gita Mishra joins Senior Editor Owen Stretton to talk about her team’s work on the simplified adolescence risk factors for endometriosis (SAFE) score for early prediction of endometriosis risk. Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(26)00053-2/fulltext Medical imaging and theranostics are revolutionising how we diagnose, treat, and unde...

Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis joins Sundus Ahmad, Senior Editor for eClinicalMedicine to discuss how Sleep, physical activity, and nutrition (SPAN) are key determinants of both life expectancy (lifespan) and disease-free life expectancy (healthspan), yet are often studied in isolation and how their team aimed to determine the minimum combined SPAN improvements needed for a longer lifespan and heal...

In this special roundtable episode with editors from eClinicalMedicine, we welcome two new Senior Editors, Victoria Higgs and Jing Yuan, to the team, and Claudia Schaefer, Sundus Shafat Ahmad, and Charlotte Rowbottom chat with Hannah Linne to reflect on highlights of 2025 and share what they think will be prominent in 2026. The team discusses standout research papers, the launch of our LinkedIn an...

Mahdi Sheikh joins Elena Bellafante, Deputy Editor for eClinicalMedicine, to discuss the evidence that regular use of pharmaceutical opioids for pain management may be associated with a higher risk of developing certain cancers, particularly those already known to be linked to opium consumption. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00371-2/fullt...

Giulia Zamagni joins Claudia Schaefer to discuss her recent Series of 4 papers from the Italian Global Burden of Disease collaborators providing the disease burden estimates and temporal trends for leukemia, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma in Italy. Click here to read the full text in this series: paper 1 ; paper 2 ; paper 3 ; paper 4   Continue this conversation on soc...

Karin Modig and Yuge Zhang join Charlotte Rowbottom to discuss their recent work on the disease trajectories of centenarians in Sweden, covering disease burden, the rate of disease accumulation, and patterns of multimorbidity. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00328-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_September_25_eclinm Continue this con...

Dr Marleen Vallinga and Dr Philippine Roijer join Hannah Linne to discuss their recent work on developing core outcome sets for feminising and masculinising genital gender-affirming surgery, the importance of gender-affirming surgery for transgender individuals, and the GenderCOS project. Find out more about the GenderCOS project: https://www.gendercos.org/ Read the associated articles: https://ww...

Sonja Aalbers talks with Owen Stretton about her group's systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of trials assessing personally tailored music therapies for patients with anxiety and how they can offer effective, flexible, and scalable interventions for reducing anxiety symptoms. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00225-1/fulltext?dgcid...

Dr. Jan Hontelez and Professor Till Barnighausen join Sundus Ahmad to discuss their modelling study which predicted changes in HIV deaths and new infections due to the PEPFAR funding freeze. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00165-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_Jun_25_eclinm Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at......

Professor Jamie Lachman and Dr Qing Han join Rachel Kerslake to discuss their recent systematic review and meta analysis looking at the Prevalence of intimate partner violence among child marriage victims and the comparison with adult marriages. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00016-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_28-04-25_eclinm Co...

Dereje Gete joins Rachel Kerslake to talk about their recent study exploring hospitalisations and length of stays in women with endometriosis using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00609-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at...

Professor Richard van Zyl-Smit joins Hannah Linne to talk about their recent study investigating the burden and drivers of e-cigarette use among adolescents in South Africa. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00549-2/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelanc...

The eClinicalMedicine team come together to discuss 2024 and 2025 in an editorial round table. Ben Burwood is joined by Hannah Linne and Rachel Kerslake to discuss obesity, AI, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, HIV engagement among adolescents, and the intersection between health and politics. Read the articles mentioned in this podcast: Safety and tolerability of losartan to treat reces...

Dr Karim Qayumi joins Sundus Ahmad to discuss the Canadian Virtual Medical University Initiative, a program designed to aid medical education in conflict zones and remote areas. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(24)00312-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhae Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://the...

Bridget Chukwudile and Dr Laura Nellums join Rachel Kerslake and Ben Burwood to talk about their recent systematic review on Antimicrobial resistance among migrants in Europe. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00380-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm You can also read the 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis published...

Dr Zoe Kourtzi joins Sundus Ahmad and Hannah Linne to talk about her recent publication on the development of an AI-guided marker for early dementia prediction in real-world clinical settings. Read the full Article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00304-3/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at...

Dr Anita Lim joins Elena Bellafante, Deputy Editor for eClinicalMedicine, to talk about her recent publication of the YouScreen study, a pragmatic implementation feasibility trial that assessed the impact of offering self-sampling to non-attenders within the English cervical cancer screening programme. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00251-...

Riccardo De Giorgi joins Elena Bellafante, Deputy Editor for eClinicalMedicine, to discuss the evidence that semaglutide may be associated with a reduced risk of a number of neurological and psychiatric outcomes, including cognitive deficits and dementia, as well as nicotine misuse. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00305-5/fulltext?dgcid=buz...

Ben Burwood and Rachel Kerslake sit down with Dr Tazeen Majeed, Assistant Dean of Education and Innovation for the College of Health Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Dr Sara Evans–Lacko, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, to discuss their systematic review on anti-stigma interventions in low and middle incom...

Andrew Yiu joins Claudia Schafer, Editor-in-Chief for eClinicalMedicine, to talk about his recent paper on adoption of routine surgical video recordings and future implications on policy and clinical practice. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00124-X/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm Continue this conversation on social! F...

Daniel Myran joins Hannah Linne, Senior Editor at eClinicalMedicine, to discuss the findings of their recent population-based cohort study investigating the risk of having an incident healthcare visit for an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit for cannabis use. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00034-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzz...

Ben Burwood (Senior Editor) sits down with Charlotte Rowbottom (Senior Editor), Vincenzo Giacco (Senior Editor), and Claudia Schaefer (Editor-in-Chief) to discuss 2023 and what lies ahead for the journal in 2024. The team discuss a paper on genetically and environmentally predicted obesity ; an upcoming Article on using deep-learning and ECGs to predict risk of type 2 diabetes; eClinicalMedicine’s...

Olufemi Oladapo and Meghan Bohren join us to talk about our latest Series, in collaboration with The Lancet Global Health. This Series looks at maternal health in the perinatal period and beyond. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/th...

Giulia Vivaldi joins Charlotte Rowbottom, Senior Editor at eClinicalMedicine, to discuss the findings of her recent COVIDENCE UK study comparing the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 with that of other types of acute respiratory infection. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370%2823%2900428-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_eclinm Continue...