The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

The latest Lancet Countdown report, which monitors the health consequences of climate change, highlights the need to prepare for future calamities. Even as Covid-19 continues to spread, a recent study suggests that the likelihood of another pandemic increases by 2% each year. In the coming decades, the interplay between the…

Stella-Lily McCorkindale was a ‘beautiful, sweet, loving and funny little girl who fought so hard to stay with us’, aunt says

We don’t know yet what’s behind the spate of strep A deaths, but we can do more to protect children, says Edinburgh University chair of global public health Prof Devi Sridhar

Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey use dating apps on the job — and their boss knows it.

Health chiefs are warning people shopping this festive season

Nurseries in Wales have been advised by Public Health Wales to be vigilant of the signs and sympoms of scarlet fever and strep throat

Parents have been reminded that the Strep A infection is still incredibly rare but these are the symptoms, signs and other things you need to know about the illness

Domestic violence is a public health problem in most parts of the world. A 2021 United Nations report showed that one in three women aged 15-49 years in sub-Saharan Africa had experienced one form of violence or another by an intimate partner.

Biomedical innovation reached a new era during the COVID-19 pandemic as drug development went into overdrive. But the ways that brand companies license their patented drugs grant them market monopoly, preventing other entities from making generics so they can exclusively profit. This significantly limits the reach of lifesaving drugs, especially…