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Increasing overmedicalisation at the end of life is denying people & their families a good death.

Towards a compassionate community model: The Lancet #ValueofDeath Commission calls for a radical rethink of care for the dying & attitudes to death. hubs.li/Q0139HH30 Death and dying must be rec...
How death is managed today:
• Alienates communities
• Pushes families in countries without #UHC into poverty
• Deprioritises efforts to reduce suffering, such as #PalliativeCare
• Diverts resources
• Is costly for health services
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Scientific advances have fuelled the belief death should be feared, avoided, defeated.

Centralising community involvement, partnerships, & better bereavement support will help rebalance societies' & medicine's relationship with death—an inevitable part of life. #ValueofDeath Image
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This week we're celebrating #PeerRevWeek20 with the theme #TrustInPeerReview

NEW Editorial discusses the enormous effect that #COVID19 has had on scientific publishing as well as the increased public interest in & scrutiny of research & science hubs.li/H0wwv5L0 Image
In recognition of #PeerRevWeek20 we would like to say thank you to our reviewers for their essential role in maintaining the advancement of science and medicine through helping us to identify the most robust and impactful work #TrustInPeerReview hubs.li/H0wB2cg0
From peer review, through our in-house editing process, production, to publication and beyond, the entire Lancet team brings a wealth of expertise in scholarly publishing

On #PeerRevWeek20, follow the journey of a paper at @TheLancet journals hubs.li/H0wB2nM0
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NEW—Most comprehensive study to date provides evidence on optimal physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent spread of #COVID19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 172 observational studies hubs.ly/H0q_BJL0 Image
"Chu & colleagues reiterate that no one intervention is completely protective & that combinations of physical distancing, face mask use, & other interventions are needed to mitigate the #COVID19 pandemic"

C R MacIntyre & Q Wang write in a linked Comment hubs.ly/H0r0Qvw0 Image
NEW #LancetVoice Podcast 🎧 Our Editors talk to Holger Schünemann (@schunemann_mac) and Derek Chu (@dkchu), authors of a new physical distancing, face mask, and eye protection study, about their findings and the authors explain their results hubs.ly/H0r0SPQ0
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