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A landmark report reveals that one in six deaths are due to pollution, particularly in lower and middle-income countries.

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said it was unclear how long delays on elective surgery would last, saying it would be managed on a day-to-day basis.

Experts say there is a lack of political urgency on vaccines and public health plans as deaths rise and winter approaches

‘Mental health needs to be treated on a par with physical health,’ say band members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris

The FDA has opened the public comment period for the agency’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. Epidemiology and global health professor Rafael Meza studies data modeling in disease prevention and cancer risk. David Mendez, who studies smoking cessation and tobacco control policies, is an associate professor of health management and…

One million people should never have to die from another pandemic. Not in America, a country built to do so much better

The number of confirmed new cases rose on Tuesday after five days of steady decreases, and the coronavirus-related death toll was also up, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Wednesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says authorities are prepared for an expected increase in migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border amid plans to lift a public health order that has been used to turn away migrants nearly 2 million times without a chance to seek asylum

Mental health nurses and midwives have had the highest number of resignations in nursing.

Professor Devi Sridhar, who appeared numerous times on TV throughout the pandemic, and is the Chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, has said that it is "worrying" that the cases are not originating from the same source

A deal has been struck to pass law changes through the state parliament's upper house that will modify how COVID will be managed in South Australia.