Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

In rural India, summer's heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close

Extreme heat is fast becoming a serious public health crisis in India, with more than 150 people dying during a severe heat wave that blasted the country earlier in June

The Independent UK

Govt launches first mobile dialysis unit

The Public Health Ministry has launched the first mobile renal dialysis unit in Thailand in a bid to help bedridden patients in remote areas.

Bangkok Post

Higher levels of lean muscle might protect against Alzheimer’s disease – study

Further research is needed to investigate the clinical and public health implications of the findings.

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is

Deaths and injuries from guns in the U.S. have increased for years, mirroring the 1990s - the last time gun violence was considered an epidemic.

WEKU

Outgoing CDC chief Rochelle Walensky: We need help to be ‘nimble agency of the future’

Dr. Rochelle Walensky is preparing for life after the pandemic. She announced her plans to step down as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 5, just six days before the federal government declared the end of the public health emergency.

Tribune News Service

Hazy future for caregiver payments expanded during pandemic worries families

Families of severely disabled children across the country are worried about the future of crucial Medicaid payments they started receiving to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

Gonorrhea shot gets FDA fast track as resistant cases multiply

GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from U.S. regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining resistance to treatment.

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Let evidence, not opinion, guide harm reduction policy and practice in Canada's drug poisoning crisis

The poisoning of the unregulated drug supply, especially in Canada, is a public health crisis that deserves a high priority for the integration of evidence into policy and practice.

The Conversation

Struggling with a drug crisis, San Francisco wants Narcan available at every pharmacy

San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy within its boundaries to always carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids

The Independent UK

Pandemic plan ‘didn’t envisage mass test and trace would be necessary’ – Selbie

The former Public Health England chief executive said that he never discussed ‘the scale of pandemic we faced’.

The Independent UK

Second childcare setting identified in E.coli probe

There is one confirmed case and one probably case of E.coli STEC infection being investigated

Wales Online

Gonorrhoea doubles across Liverpool as STIs rise above pandemic levels

Public health officials urge people to get tested and use a condom

Liverpool Echo

Sadiq Khan awarded honorary fellowship for work on air quality

Sadiq Khan has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Faculty of Public Health “in recognition of his leadership in tackling poor air quality”.

Evening Standard

Minimum unit pricing has had positive impact but not for poor alcoholics – study

Alcohol deaths fell by 13.4% because of minimum unit pricing, the evaluation by Public Health Scotland suggested.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Bangkok Post

Covid case numbers 'are falling'

The number of Covid-19 patients in Thailand is dropping while Covid-19 deaths are mostly people aged above 70 and the unvaccinated, according to the Public Health Ministry.

The Guardian - US

Anthony Fauci to become professor at Georgetown University medical school

Former top public health official, 82, stepped down as director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year

The Hindu

State to set up Centre for Disease Control on the model of a similar government facility in U.S.

The proposed K-CDC is expected to work alongside the Public Health Training Centre of the Health department in the capital

Daily Mirror

NHS nurse shortage left Britain vulnerable to pandemic, Covid Inquiry told

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) infection control lead Rosemary Gallagher told the Inquiry: 'We know that we went into the pandemic with a significant shortage, about 50,000 nurses short'

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Week

Indoor air pollution: the dangers inside your home

How clean is the air you breathe indoors? Before the pandemic, it was a question few people spending time inside offices, gyms, schools and homes asked themselves. But indoor air quality could be the next “frontier” in improving public health.

WEKU

Public health leader says verdict on Long COVID still out

The head of Kentucky’s state public health agency says the long-term effects of coronavirus remain a question mark. The summer of 2023 finds COVID seldom in news headlines.

Reason

Uneducating Americans on Vaping

Since the FDA began regulating vaping products as "tobacco" products, American ignorance about vaping's realtive risks has gotten worse.

The Guardian - US

US navy accused of cover-up over radioactive shipyard waste

Public health advocates say land at Hunters Point in San Francisco contains dangerous levels of strontium-90

The Guardian - UK

It took years to learn the deadly lessons of cigarettes. We can’t wait so long for vaping

Nicotine is a drug that shouldn’t be dressed up in cartoon packaging and sweet shop flavours

Wales Online

School closed to nursery children over confirmed E.coli cases

Parents are being asked to get stool samples to test for the infection

Reason

Appellate Court Dismisses Case Challenging CDC Transportation Mask Mandate Because it has Become Moot

A case that began with a bang ends with a whimper. The issue of whether the CDC has the power to impose mask mandates remains unresolved.

1 … 42 43 44 45

People

Kathryn Kimball Mizelle

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Public Health Scotland

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

121 stories

Public Health Wales

102 stories

The UK Health Security Agency

102 stories

PHS

89 stories

The National Institutes of Health

77 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.