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Smartphones offer a way to understand our lives and health through digital tracing, but trust, transparency and value of information exchange need to be preserved — which is the aim of a new data-processing platform.
Despite widespread development of national physical activity policies over the past 20 years, global levels of physical activity have been largely unchanged (with around one in three adults and four in five adolescents not meeting recommended physical activity levels since 2012). This gap between policy development and real‑world impact highlights the need for stronger political prioritization, clearer leadership and effective multisectoral implementation.
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 targets by setting urgent and actionable priorities.
This Review describes recent evidence on how climate change and extreme weather can cause social isolation and loneliness, along with the benefits of social connection during such events.
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 enhancing willingness to intervene.
A study using a large electronic health record database found that patients with colour vision deficiency had lower survival rates for bladder cancer, possibly because they may not be able to detect gross haematuria in time.
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 progress, challenges and prospects of LLMs in addressing health system disparities and supporting achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Environmental nanoplastics and microplastics enter the human gut where they encounter biological-selective barriers; the plausibility of plastics crossing these barriers is reviewed based on an understanding of the physiochemical properties of drug-delivery nanoparticles.
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.
