Lancet flukes aren't smart.

Yeah, it's just a fluke. It's a lancet fluke.

It was a randomized control study published in The Lancet.

Nevertheless, Alice Stewart rushed to publish her preliminary findings in The Lancet in 1956.

I submit that the intelligence of a lancet fluke is down there somewhere between petunia and carrot.

Combining that information with the efficacies of key interventions as published in The Lancet increasingly facilitates the monitoring of progress in mortality reduction.

Providing proper nutrition in a child s first thousand days is particularly important. The British medical journal The Lancet has described a package of effective interventions to accomplish this.

The second series focused on neonatal survivial and began with Lawn JE, Cousens S., Zupan J., 4 million neonatal deaths When? Where? Why? , Lancet 2005 365 891 900.

Well, it's because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow in order to reproduce.

Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all terrain vehicle.

Chintu C., Bhat GJ, Walker AS, et. al., Co trimoxazole as prophylaxis against opportunistic infections in HIV infected Zambian children (CHAP) a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial , Lancet 2004 365 1865 71.

The first series of five papers focused on child survival and began with Black R., Morris S., and Bryce J., Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? , Lancet 2003 361 2226 34.

In 2008, Lancet compiled all the research and put forward the compelling evidence that if a child in its first thousand days from conception to two years old does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

The survey approach was used twice by a group of researchers based primarily at Johns Hopkins University, who published their results in the medical journal The Lancet . Their estimates have been lauded, but also questioned because of their misinterpretation of their own figures.

Again, the researchers had interviewers administer what resembled a typical survey of a random sample of households. Appropriately, at the end of the article in The Lancet , the authors discuss issues that may have resulted in a sample that in fact did not meet the random threshold.

A recent series on neonatal issues in the British science journal Lancet estimated that between 41 and 72 of neonatal deaths could be prevented if simple interventions were provided effectively where they are needed most. In other words, up to three million babies needlessly die each year.

So, my view of the health care worker of the future is not a doctor, but is an 18 year old, otherwise unemployed, who has two things He has a backpack full of these tests, and a lancet to occasionally take a blood sample, and an AK 47.

My colleagues and I addressed this question in a review published in The Lancet in April 2004. The review showed that while the published data generally indicated minimal risk, the unpublished trial data were far less sanguine, and even suggested an increased risk of serious adverse events, including suicide related behavior.

The British medical journal The Lancet has described a package of effective interventions to accomplish this. Recommended measures include providing essential vitamins and minerals through enriched foods and supplements promoting breastfeeding and nutritious complementary feeding for weaning babies and treating severely malnourished children with therapeutic foods such as specially fortified peanut butter.

In a recent article in the British scientific journal The Lancet , Oliver Sabot and I proposed such a strategy. The approach is simple a redoubled effort to reduce infections and deaths rapidly in the malaria heartland (i.e., equatorial Africa and a handful of other areas around the world) should be accompanied by a campaign to roll back the disease from its current margins.

Indeed, only about 15 of Australians and 20 of Americans smoke, but in 14 low and middle income countries covered in a survey recently published in The Lancet, an average of 41 of men smoked, with an increasing number of young women taking up the habit. The World Health Organization estimates that about 100 million people died from smoking in the twentieth century, but smoking will kill up to one billion people in the twenty first century.