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A new journal of public, global and population health from the Nature Portfolio - launching in 2026.
From discovery to real-world impact: what’s next for Precision Health? @nathealth.nature.com Chief Editor @benjaminjohnson.bsky.social shares his take. Join us at Reframing Precision Medicine, 13–15 Oct, London. Abstracts close 30 June #STEMConference #medsky go.nature.com/4eqL6PP
With almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals not being achieved amid declining global solidarity, countries would be better served by regional development goals. A comment by Olusoji Adeyi & Ramanan Laxminarayan www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ResilientHealthSystems #OneHealthTrust
Regional development goals can improve global health in an era of diminished multilateralism - Nature Health
With almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals not being achieved amid declining global solidarity, countries would be better served by regional development goals.
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Colleagues from WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia write a perspective on Colombo Call to Action, a roadmap for countries to accelerate diabetes prevention and care, aiming to close treatment gaps and meet 2030 coverage targets. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @who.int #NCDprevent #WHO_SEA
Colombo Call to Action for diabetes prevention and control in South-East Asia - Nature Health
This Perspective describes the Colombo Call to Action, a roadmap for countries in South-East Asia to accelerate diabetes prevention and care, aiming to close treatment gaps and meet 2030 coverage targ...
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Pregnant women exposed to cumulative days of high temperature saw a two-fold increased risk of gestational diabetes in a time-series study of 8796 such cases in Barcelona between 2011 and 2022. Andrea Pistillo, Talita Duarte-Salles and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s44... #heat&health
Cumulative daily exposure to high temperature increases gestational diabetes risk - Nature Health
Pregnant women exposed to cumulative days of high temperature saw a twofold-increased risk of gestational diabetes in a time-series study of 8,796 such cases in Barcelona between 2011 and 2022.
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Using data on 125k+ compounds and biologics, this dataset integrates trial registries, news, stock prices and AI to auto‑annotate outcomes, improving drug development and predictors of success. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #DrugDevelopment #AI Jimeng Sun and colleagues, University of Illinois
A large-scale database for clinical trial outcomes and features - Nature Health
Including data for more than 125,000 compounds and biological agents, a dataset leverages a variety of sources including trial registries, news and stock prices and artificial intelligence to annotate...
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An open source platform allows for continuous monitoring of a wide-range of smartphone-based signals, including moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, application usage logs, interaction histories, and phone sensor readings. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Screenomics #Health
An open-source platform for multimodal digital trace data collection from smartphones - Nature Health
Following a privacy-preserving framework, an open-source platform allows for continuous monitoring of a wide range of smartphone-based signals, including moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, appli...
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A Nature Health study uses a digital twin of Singapore’s older adult population to test how health systems can better detect dementia and cognitive decline. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #HealthPolicy #Dementia #DigitalTwins
Cost-effective case-finding strategies for cognitive impairment with digital twin simulations - Nature Health
A generative model is used to simulate a digital twin population based on the records of 1,856 individuals in Singapore, on which different screening programmes for case finding in cognitive impairmen...
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Nature Health published an article exploring how a traditional dietary pattern rooted in traditional Chinese food elements is associated with better adherence, favorable gut microbial profiles, lower central obesity, and reduced major cardiovascular events. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Eastern coastal Chinese diet associated with reduced obesity and improved cardiometabolic health - Nature Health
Using dietary data from 8,931 participants in the WELL-China cohort, this study identifies a new diet rooted in traditional Chinese food elements associated with better adherence, favourable gut micro...
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Artificial intelligence and the future of evidence-based medicine. Comment from Gary Collins and colleagues, University of Birmingham #AI #EBM #medicine www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Artificial intelligence and the future of evidence-based medicine - Nature Health
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming how clinical evidence is generated and applied in clinical care by enabling real-time data integration, dynamic trial design and personalized decisio...
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🗣️Global Health EDCTP3 Executive Director, Dr Michael Makanga, shares how #EDCTP has been advancing African-led clinical research for over two decades on an interview with @nathealth.nature.com. 🔗 Full interview: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Frequent presymptomatic household transmission of influenza A but not influenza B virus Research from Tim Tsang, University of Hong Kong #health #medicine #influenza www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Frequent presymptomatic household transmission of influenza A but not influenza B virus - Nature Health
Based on two waves of data collection from 748 households in Hong Kong, this analysis sheds light on the number of transmission events that occurred before manifestation of symptoms in influenza A and...
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Time to prioritize self-reliance programmes to manage Africa’s healthcare needs. Comment from Ebenezer Frimpong, Mlungisi Ngcobo & Nceba Gqaleni #health #medicine #africa www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Time to prioritize self-reliance programmes to manage Africa’s healthcare needs - Nature Health
African countries should invest in homegrown health intervention programmes to withstand external funding shocks.
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Rethinking universal healthcare in Canada through a global health ethics lens. Comment from Daniel A. Adeyinka & Brandace Winquist, Saskatchewan Health Authority, Canada #UHC #health #ethics www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Rethinking universal healthcare in Canada through a global health ethics lens - Nature Health
Canada’s universal healthcare is at a crossroads, requiring ethical reform to realign domestic equity with global leadership.
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Digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents in war and conflict zones. Comment from John R. Weisz and colleagues, @harvard.edu #war #conflict #mentalhealth #health www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents in war and conflict zones - Nature Health
Young, displaced people face an increased risk of mental health problems but limited access to in-person treatment; digital interventions may help to fill this gap.
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Behaviour changes, rather than vaccination or post-infection immunity, best explained the sudden decline of mpox cases during the Paris outbreak in 2022. Research from Vittoria Collizza and co, INSERM #mpox #health www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Role of behaviour change in controlling the 2022 Paris mpox outbreak - Nature Health
Behaviour changes, rather than vaccination or postinfection immunity, best explained the sudden decline of mpox cases among men who have sex with men during an outbreak in the Paris region in 2022, ac...
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How Rwanda is preparing its health system for the climate crisis. Correspondence from Phaedra Henley and colleagues University of Global Health Equity #climatechange www.nature.com/articles/s44...
How Rwanda is preparing its health system for the climate crisis - Nature Health
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A gatekeeper programme for suicide prevention in 84 #schools in China saw reduced suicide stigma and improved willingness of teachers to intervene. Cluster randomised trial from Runsen Chen and co, Tsinghua University #health www.nature.com/articles/s44... N&V: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Schools for suicide prevention - Nature Health
A large-scale school-based trial in China demonstrates that brief, culturally adapted training equips teachers to act as effective gatekeepers for youth suicide prevention by reducing stigma and enhan...
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GenAI has the potential to worsen health inequities. In a new review we show that with intent, confronting the challenges, it could be just the opposite, globally led by @nliulab.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s44...
Large language models in global health - Nature Health
Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful tools in healthcare, with a growing role in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This Perspective examines the current...
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A multimedia e-learning chatbot codesigned with community stakeholders increased health awareness in a randomised trial of 2113 participants in urban and rural areas across 11 Chinese provinces. Research from Shasha Han and colleagues #healthAI #AI www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A community-codesigned LLM-powered chatbot for primary care: a randomized controlled trial - Nature Health
A multimedia e-learning chatbot codesigned with community stakeholders increased health awareness in a randomized trial of 2,113 participants in urban and rural areas across 11 Chinese provinces.
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Artificial intelligence for public health can harness data for healthier populations. Comment from Tien Yin Wong and colleagues @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social #AI #publichealth www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Artificial intelligence for public health can harness data for healthier populations - Nature Health
By focusing on large-scale data analysis and population-wide interventions, artificial intelligence in public health offers new strategic approaches to disease surveillance, health promotion and polic...
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Metabolite signatures for carbohydrates including fruit, whole grain and potato showed different associations with type 2 diabetes, providing an objective measure of dietary risk. Research from Qi Sun and colleagues @harvard.edu #diet #metabolism #publichealth
Metabolomic signatures of dietary carbohydrates and differential association with type 2 diabetes - Nature Health
Metabolite signatures were identified for subtypes of dietary carbohydrate, including added sugar, whole grain and refined grain, and showed different associations with type 2 diabetes, providing an…
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Gaps in MMR vaccine coverage align with recent measles outbreaks in the USA. Research from Eric Geng Zhou, John S. Brownstein & Benjamin Rader @harvard.edu #vaccine #publichealth
Assessing MMR vaccination coverage gaps in US children with digital participatory surveillance - Nature Health
Digital surveillance at the national scale, coupled with a spatial model that extends the data to a more granular scale, reveals gaps in MMR vaccination coverage that align with recent measles…
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A new framework compares risks and benefits of deploying new vaccines via accelerated pathways against early epidemiological data. Research from Bethan Cracknell Daniels and colleagues, University of Cambridge #vaccines #publichealth #health
A framework for risk–benefit analysis of vaccines approved through accelerated pathways - Nature Health
Using a statistical model that incorporates transmission intensity and stratum-specific rates of severe outcomes, either associated with disease or vaccination, a framework is proposed to compare the…
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AI implementation in US hospitals is heterogeneous, influenced by local context and institutional characteristics and associated with healthcare quality. Research from Tina Hernandez-Boussard and colleagues, Stanford University. #publichealth #health #healthAI #AI
The landscape of AI implementation in US hospitals - Nature Health
Using survey data from 3,560 hospitals across the USA, AI implementation is shown to be spatially heterogeneous, influenced by the local context and institutional characteristics.
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An analysis of heatwaves in 265 Chinese cities found that small accessible parks mitigated heat-related mortality. Research from Haidon Kan, Maigeng Zhou and colleagues at Fudan University and China CDC. #park #greenspace #heatwaves #publichealth #health www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Small accessible urban parks mitigate heat-related mortality - Nature Health
An analysis of heatwaves in 265 Chinese cities found that small accessible parks mitigated heat-related mortality more effectively than a single large park.
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Making progress on global health will need high-quality evidence
Nature Health, the newest journal in the Nature Portfolio, aims to bridge the ‘implementation gap’ from research to policy and practice.
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People with bladder cancer who are also colour blind may have a lower chance of survival than those with normal colour vision, according to research in @nathealth.nature.com. The study suggests extra screening could improve survival outcomes: spklr.io/633248itnQ #HealthSky #CanSky
Impact of colour vision deficiency on bladder and colorectal cancer survival - Nature Health
In a retrospective case–control study of electronic health records, patients with bladder cancer and colour vision deficiency (CVD) had a 52% higher 20-year mortality risk than matched controls without CVD.
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A framework for risk-benefit analysis of #vaccines approved through accelerated pathways. Research from Cracknell Daniels and colleagues, University of Cambridge
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Patients with bladder cancer and color vision deficiency had a 52% higher 20-year mortality risk than matched controls without colour vision deficiency, according to a study of electronic health records from 19 countries. Research from Rahimy and colleagues, Stanford
Survey data from 3560 US hospitals found that AI implementation was spatially heterogeneous, influenced by local context and institutional characteristics, and associated with healthcare quality. Research from Hwang and colleagues, Stanford University
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