Innovation is needed to avoid closure of rural US hospitals The Lancet Respiratory Medicine ++... ++

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(26)00050-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email Innovation is needed to avoid closure of rural US hospitals The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Around 80% of the US population live in urban areas where hospitals and outpatient clinics are often nearby and abundant. For the remaining 20% of people living in rural areas, there is growing uncertainty about health-care access, with the latest report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform published in Jan, 2026, suggesting that 700 (a third of all rural hospitals in the US) are at risk of closing because of the serious financial problems they are experiencing Mar 2026 Volume 14Number 3p187-280, e19-e28 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/issue/vol14no3/PIIS2213-2600(26)X2002-1 Burden of chronic respiratory disease in Asia, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 GBD 2023 Asia Chronic Respiratory Disease Collaborators https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(25)00404-7/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_feature_lanres Bisoprolol to prevent adverse cardiac events (PACE) in COPD: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial Prof Christine R Jenkins, MDa ∙ Allison Martin, PhDa ∙ Catherina L Chang, MDb ∙ Prof Richard Beasley, DScc ∙ Jeremy P Wrobel, PhDd ∙ Prof Vanessa M McDonald, PhDe ∙ et al. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(25)00390-X/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_feature_lanres