Health

Debt payments exceed health, education spending five times – Report

A new report reveals Nigeria’s debt payments are nearly five times higher than combined health and education spending, with IMF policies blamed for worseni Read More…

Benin monarch mobilises traditionalists in offensive against kidnappers

Oba Ewuare II, the Benin monarch, has tasked native doctors and traditional adherents to lay curses on kidnappers and criminals in Edo State. Read more. Read More…

Rivers shuts five hospitals, arrests seven over child trafficking

Rivers State Government has shut down five hospitals and arrested seven suspects over alleged child trafficking and illegal medical practices. Read more he Read More…

DR Congo president to pass law that could help him stay in power

DR Congo president to pass law that could help him stay in power

D R Congo President Felix Tshisekedi is preparing to pass a law which could open the door to a third term in office by amending the constitution, but he may face protests in the street. Tshisekedi, 63, comes to the end of his second – and…

Disparate privacy risks from medical AI

Nature, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10688-0 AI models for medical diagnostics are vulnerable to membership inference attacks.

Dietary cholesterol activates a Ral-dependent pathway driving LDLR turnover

Dietary cholesterol activates a Ral-dependent pathway driving LDLR turnover

Nature, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10697-z Chronic dietary cholesterol activates Ral GTPases, which promote LDLR internalization and lysosomal degradation through RalBP1–REPS1 and CTSA, thereby reducing…

Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals

Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals

Nature, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10678-2 Alternate RNA decoding, an understudied process, leads to peptide sequence modifications that can have substantial functional effects on protein stability…

Immunological mechanisms of mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases

Immunological mechanisms of mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases

Nature, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10599-0 A Review of the immunological mechanisms of mRNA–lipid-nanoparticle vaccines for infectious diseases discusses how the components of this vaccine platform can be…

Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

Nature, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02032-3 Identification risks are more severe for underrepresented groups in the training data — plus, evidence that the Universe is more uneven than assumed.

HealthJun 23, 2026 · 1 min

Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk

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Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk

Sitting for prolonged periods is associated with health complications – but you can counteract the risks of a sedentary life.

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Concerns raised about WA worker shortages amid vocational training drop

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HealthJun 23, 2026 · 1 min

Concerns raised about WA worker shortages amid vocational training drop

The number of West Australians enrolled in apprenticeships and traineeships is the lowest in five years after a post-COVID spike in numbers.

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HealthJun 23, 2026 · 1 min

Who will fund democracy in Nigeria?

Nigeria’s democracy is entering dangerous territory, with governance failures worsening. Unfortunately, donor support for transparency, accountability, and democracy programming in Nigeria is being withdrawn under the radar. Should…