Health care articles from across Nature Portfolio

The race is on to find interventions that improve health and promote longevity. The mechanisms behind and possible benefits of one such intervention, dietary restriction, are more complex than previously thought.

Echocardiographic screening during routine pacemaker checkups identifies pacing-induced cardiomyopathy in more than one-third of patients, requiring multidisciplinary, guideline-directed follow-up care.

A latent diffusion model pre-trained on pairs of natural images and text descriptors can be adapted to generate realistic chest radiographs that are controlled by free-form medical text prompts.

It is unclear whether providing the results of abdominal aortic calcification imaging to patients improves diet parameters. This randomized trial shows that this intervention does not lead to improvements in fruit and vegetable intake, while showing an effect on some cardiovascular disease risk factors used as secondary outcomes.

Wang et al. use a Natural Language Processing approach to detect suicide-circumstance annotation inconsistencies in death investigation notes. They identify possible label errors, show the effectiveness of identifying and rectifying possible label errors, and propose a coding consistency improvement solution.

Private enterprises offer preimplantation genetic testing with polygenic scores to select embryos with ‘desirable’ potential. In silico simulations using biobank resources show that the selected embryo would rely substantially on the choice of polygenic score method and randomness in score construction, which raises ethical concerns.

Women’s health research has long been underfunded, in part owing to stigmas associated with conditions that primarily affect women. Equitable health research funding requires transparency from funding agencies, investment in women-centred innovations, support for women in science and a cultural shift in how health issues are viewed.

Over the past 20 years, Nature Reviews Urology has been at the forefront of developments in the field — from championing men’s health to explaining the intricacies of the prostate cancer tumour immune microenvironment. Going forwards the journal will continue to be a leader in the field, providing an important resource for patients and physicians alike.

Clinician whose family-centred approach upended work on mid-life memory loss.