Tag: Public Health

Advertising has a significant impact on smoking, and banning these ads can make a huge difference.

A universal flu vaccine would be a game changer. Could artificial intelligence help us defeat influenza once and for all?

Social isolation and loneliness are more than personal struggles—they're global public health crises.

Driven to the brink of extinction, bed bugs adapted—and now pesticides are almost useless against them.

The mystery of this Disease X seems to have been solved. Now to develop an approach to handling it.

Bird flu continues to loom as a global threat. A severe case in Louisiana is the latest development in a ...

Well, I didn't have herpes on my Christmas bingo card.

A mysterious disease has popped up in the DRC and seems to be particularly deadly to children, but we are ...

The cookers spew harmful gases linked to heart and lung disease but most people are completely unaware.

Large pockets of unvaccinate children have caused a backsliding in immunization against measles -- a vaccine-preventable disease.

Antibiotic-resistant typhoid is spreading in some parts of the world so this news comes in the nick of time.

The potentially deadly illness, which can be easily prevented with vaccinations, continues to spike globally.

Facebook's recent policy changes makes it harder for legitimate pro-vaccine sources to publish ads while anti-vaccine groups bend the rules.

Sri Lanka is the fourth country in the WHO South-East Asia Region, after Bhutan, Maldives, and Timor-Leste, to eliminate measles ...

The two countries join many others who have recently eliminated malaria from within their borders.

Countries need to account for health in all cost-benefit analyses of climate change mitigation.

We don't know anything about disease X -- that's the point.