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Understand the psychosocial factors associated with "mindless scrolling syndrome" with a team of researchers from NIMHANS. Review article published in Journal of Public Health and Primary Care.

Harvard professors wanted to flood social media with evidence-based information about conditions like anxiety and depression. So they turned to the people who already know how to go viral.

Exclusive: Proliferation comes amid treatment shortage and poses major public health threat, say experts

Covid levels haven’t reached peaks of winter 2022 season, but public health officials are monitoring new JN.1 variant

A quarter of its Gaza’s population could die within a year due to outbreaks caused by this unprecedented conflict, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

A report by the New Brunswick, Canada, auditor general's office found that the provincial Department of Public Health could not provide documentation to support any of a sample of 33 policy recommendations it made during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The department was unable to provide requested documentation, acknowledging that they 'did…

Public health schemes such as London’s Ulez can be traced back to the study that found an association between air pollution and mortality

Chicago hospitals were admitting about 30 COVID-19 patients per day as of Christmas Eve, a 13% rise from the previous week.

Opioid deaths, HIV and infectious diseases, the racial life expectancy gap and social inequality are Chicago health challenges.