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Malaria in India is perceived as a poor man's disease, thus receiving low priority in the public health agenda.

Minister for public health and sport, Maree Todd MSP, was also part of the procession, and she received the baton from McMahon on the last leg of its journey around Calton Hill.

LOS ANGELES — In the last two years, COVID-19 has followed a predictable, if painful, pattern: When coronavirus transmission has rebounded, California has been flooded with new cases and hospitals have strained under a deluge of seriously ill patients, a distressing number of whom die.

Tory MSP Sandesh Gulhane claimed the policy isn't working and that some were forgoing food in favour of expensive booze, but one expert did not…

A new report found "stark inequalities" in alcohol-related hospital stays and deaths in Scotland.

An update from Public Health Scotland said this was the total of as of noon on Sunday.

Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu itself.

Video showed Cecelia Benavides, a teaching assistant at Freedom Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, striking one disabled student and pushing a rolling chair into another. A public health attendant at the school kept a journal detailing numerous incidents in which Benavides and teacher Cylmeera Gastav abused disabled children under their…

DEATHS related to alcohol in Scotland are five times more likely in the most deprived groups, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).