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The White House has selected a former North Carolina health official to be the new director of the nation’s top federal public health agency

The director of public health made the comment in response to a councillor in a letter voicing fears over the growing impact of rodents.

The council's statutory licensing committee granted the change of licence

Two days after delivering a stillborn baby, an Austin Public Health employee was notified she would not qualify for the city’s eight weeks of paid parental leave.

The mental and physical health consequences of loneliness are grave.

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts…

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to install telecom networks in sub-district hospitals in border areas, with a budget of up to 3.8 billion baht under its Universal Service Obligation (USO) scheme.

The report raises concern that Brexit is compounding the problems of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Professor Dr Udomsilp Srisangnam, an adviser to the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) and former public health minister, died on Tuesday aged 80, his daughter Ploypraew Srisaengnam announced on her Facebook page.