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A new journal of public, global and population health from the Nature Portfolio - launching in 2026.
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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

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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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January 29, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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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.

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January 26, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Frequent presymptomatic household transmission of influenza A but not influenza B virus

Research from Tim Tsang, University of Hong Kong
#health #medicine #influenza

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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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January 29, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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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
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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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January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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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

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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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January 22, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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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

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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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January 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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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
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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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January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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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

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Nature Health - How Rwanda is preparing its health system for the climate crisis
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January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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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
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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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January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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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
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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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January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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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
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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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January 19, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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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
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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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January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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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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January 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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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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January 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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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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January 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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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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January 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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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
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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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January 16, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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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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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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January 15, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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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

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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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January 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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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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January 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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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
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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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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January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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A genomic screening pilot for 10 genes in young adults in Australia detected pathogenic variants in 2% of the population, most of whom were ineligible for government-funded genomic testing.

Research from Lacaze and colleagues, Monash University

#genomics #health
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January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Microplastics and nanoplastics in the human diet.

Review from Avino and Di Fiore, as part of our launch issue.

#microplastics #plastic #health #diet
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Large language models in global health.

Perspective from Nan Liu and colleagues

#AI #healthAI #LLM
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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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January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM