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This Lancet Psychiatry series focuses on alcohol use disorders—a major cause of morbidity and mortality on a global scale. The series papers place alcohol use disorders within a public health, as well as a clinical, context, providing information on current knowledge, research, and care practices for mental health professionals. The first series paper reviews existing information and developments that have occurred in the past five years on prevention, screening, and treatment for heavy drinking and…

This report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) highlights the threat that drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB)—the only major airborne drug-resistant epidemic—poses for global health security. Affecting more than 500,000 people across the globe annually, DR-TB is costly, widespread, but also under-resourced. As deaths attributed to antimicrobial resistance are predicted to rise to 10 million by 2050, DR-TB could be responsible for about 2.5 million of these deaths. The report argues that this public health epidemic…

This Lancet Oncology Commission report examines the action required to substantively tackle cancer, a rapidly growing health problem in sub-Saharan Africa where cancer incidence has doubled in the past 30 years. In addition to illustrating the current state of cancer in the region, the report emphasizes how fragile health systems in sub-Saharan Africa are ill-equipped to address this mounting health burden, pointing to problems like incomplete cancer registries; poor access to screening, diagnostics, and treatment;…