Minaminoshima Isamu Prescott Falevai who carried his father's sumo ring name all the way to Japan, spending nearly eight years inside one of the country's elite professional stables.

Health misinformation has spread across the Pacific for years, often reaching communities before the facts do.

A neuroscientist says Power Slap athletes aren't just risking their future, many are losing consciousness from hit and that means literal brain damage is happening in the moment.

For many in Fiji, sugar evokes memory of indentured labour, land dispossession, and the quiet crisis of diabetes that touches nearly every family.

After a medical retirement brought his playing days to a halt, Kimami Sitauti found a new purpose in France helping new arrivals navigate life in a country where even ordering a coffee can feel overwhelming without French.

This edition of Pacific Pulse was a repeat of the program broadcast on 15th April 2026

Experts say when someone is visibly unwell, we’re still quick to label them “crazy,” or explain symptoms like hearing voices or paranoia through spirits or possession when these can be signs of conditions like schizophrenia or severe depression that need proper treatment. 

Race, patriarchy, poverty, and the arrival of a period has kept generations of women invisible in Fiji's sports scene. 

Diphtheria is a bacterial disease we thought we'd left behind, but gaps in adult vaccination and overcrowded housing conditions have given it a foothold again.

Sitting across a trafficking route where meth and cocaine is passing through Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Solomon Islands, not all drugs leave. 

On the streets of Suva, people are handing out clean syringes to drug users at night in a bid to prevent the spread of HIV because there's no formal needle exchange program.