Oommen John

TL;DR: Global health has steadily improved over the past 30 years as measured by age-standardised DALY rates, and there has been a marked shift towards a greater proportion of burden due to YLDs from non-communicable diseases and injuries.

TL;DR: The largest declines in risk exposure from 2010 to 2019 were among a set of risks that are strongly linked to social and economic development, including household air pollution; unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing; and child growth failure.

TL;DR: Life expectancy at age 70 has continued to rise globally, mostly because of decreases in chronic diseases, and adults aged ≥70 living in high income countries and regions with better healthcare access and quality were found to experience the highest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared dexamethasone 12 versus 6mg daily for up to 10 days in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe hypoxaemia in the international, randomised, blinded COVID STEROID 2 trial.

TL;DR: A recent World Health Organization report has outlined the technical specifications for automated noninvasive clinical BP measurement with cuff The report is applicable to ambulatory, home, and office devices used for clinical purposes The report recommends that for routine clinical purposes, automated devices be used, an upper arm cuff be used and only automated devices that have passed accepted international accuracy standards (eg, the International Organization for Standardization 81060-2; 2018 protocol) be used as discussed by the authors.