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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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🗣️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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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...

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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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...

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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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...

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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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.

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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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...

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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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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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.

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

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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

A framework for risk-benefit analysis of #vaccines approved through accelerated pathways.

Research from Cracknell Daniels and colleagues, University of Cambridge

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

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

Microplastics and nanoplastics in the human diet.

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

#microplastics #plastic #health #diet

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...

Large language models in global health.

Perspective from Nan Liu and colleagues

#AI #healthAI #LLM
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The human airborne exposome - Nature Health In this Perspective, Gao argues that the air comprises a complex mixture of pollutants and microorganisms that are not adequately measured in human exposome research.

The human airborne exposome.

A Perspective from Peng Gao
@hsph.harvard.edu
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#pollution #airpollution #cleanair

Who will pay for global health? - Nature Health Devastating US aid cuts offer an opportunity to reimagine global health, with African leaders charting a new course of self-reliance.

Who will pay for global health?

News Feature from Abdullahi Tsanni, as part of our launch issue.

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#globalhealth #publichealth #africa #health

The opportunity in the global health financing crisis.

World View from @drtedros.who.int Director-General of @who.int , as part of our launch issue.

#globalhealth #publichealth #health #aid

Nature Health launches today! In our inaugural editorial, we outline our vision of 'health beyond medicine' and aim to publish research, reviews and opinion that bridges the 'implementation gap' between health research with policy and practice.
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Nature Health launches this Thursday 15th January! Stay tuned for the latest Research, Reviews, News and Opinion content on public, global, digital and environmental health.