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This informative article discusses the push to ban menthol cigarettes and its potential impact on public health, particularly in black communities.

Public health director in Scotland says adopting stance of the birds is an effective way to move without falling

Learn about the concerning surge in tuberculosis cases and how it may be linked to the border. Discover the impact of partially treated cases and the rise ...

As a public health expert, I’m sorry to say that recent eye-catching claims about our diets are probably misleading, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University

A new study in Pediatrics shows that an anonymous tip line for students is catching some gun threats before they can escalate. It is part of an effort to treat gun violence as a public health problem.

The former president is reviving campaign promises to undo Obamacare, an idea that fizzled during his first time in office. Based on his record, here's what else he might do in health policy.

ICMR has begun the process of revising the current National Essential Diagnostics List, saying that considerable time has passed since the first such list was released in 2019

Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking in America

'Disease X' isn't a threat yet, as far as we know. Here are nine other pandemic threats the World Health Organization is keeping a watchful eye on.

Government urged to act as experts sound the alarm on nitazenes, with 54 deaths in past six months likely ‘tip of the iceberg’

In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men as part of a 40-year study observing the natural course of the disease. The experiment’s subjects – the majority of whom were sharecroppers from rural Alabama – believed…