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Health bosses will urgently review dental provision across the North East.

Walking enhances connections within and between three brain networks, including one associated to Alzheimer's disease, according to new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health, adding to the growing body of evidence that exercise benefits brain health. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Public Health Ministry successfully used drones to fly a 12-kilometre journey across the sea to deliver medicine to a hospital on Koh Puyu in Satun province.

Five more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu on Friday. It included two persons in Kanyakumari and one each in Salem and Krishnagiri. A passenger who arrived from Singapore also tested positive. As many as 11 persons were declared to have recovered and had gone went home. With…

Lori Lightfoot heads to Harvard for a fellowship at the public health school; her course will be, in part, a study of how she steered Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a letter to parents, headmaster Adam Heath says a second staff member is being tested for the disease and the school is working closely with Grampians Public Health to address the situation.

As we mark World No Tobacco Day today, it is imperative that we reflect on this year's theme: "We need food, not tobacco." While smoking continues to pose a significant public health threat in Thailand, we must also recognise the adverse impact of tobacco cultivation on tobacco farmers, food security…

Jenni Minto, the public health minister, admitted the consumption of energy drinks by children was a "significant concern" among parents.

If public health infrastructure isn’t strengthened, experts say the risk of more TB cases and deaths will increase worldwide, a Yale University physician writes. The U.S. should build on the momentum developed during COVID-19 to address TB.

Covid-19-related deaths declined last week as the dominant strain is neither more transmissible nor more severe, according to the Public Health Department.

The number of dengue fever cases is expected to rise next month as Thailand enters the rainy season, with 16,650 cases and 17 deaths reported since Jan 1, the Public Health Ministry warned on Monday.