The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Quality standards to be introduced on products to tackle youth vaping, including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients

The Public Health Ministry wants this year to be the first in which people are given annual Covid-19 booster shots, similar to the seasonal flu vaccine.

Instead of using the colour-coded system focusing on the spread of the virus by county, the CDC will track hospitalisation rates

Each state has different cottage food laws that don’t actually protect public health and safety.

Three years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, many public health restrictions have been lifted and organizations are requiring workers to return to the office.

We must debunk the myth that vaping e-cigarettes is 95% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes often and with factual evidence.

It’s 2013. The Harlem Shake is on the radio and e-cigarettes are becoming a thing. A group of researchers convene to discuss these and other products containing nicotine.

The Texas Tribune analyzed previously unreported air monitoring data and records from the 2019 ITC chemical disaster near Houston and found that high benzene levels lingered in the air for two weeks after public health measures were lifted. Experts say more shelter-in-place advisories should have been issued.

Dr. Vivek Murthy says loneliness has "risen to the level of a public health crisis' at Fortune's Brainstorm Health Conference.

One measles case has been confirmed and 31 probable cases are under investigation in American Samoa, prompting a public health emergency declaration and travel restrictions for those wishing to travel to neighbouring Samoa.

Fauci says public officials should have listened to other advisers and made better decisions. That's true! It's also incredibly frustrating.