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Ministers were reported to be planning to ban the sale and possession as part of a bid to tackle antisocial behaviour

The independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was asked by the Home Office in 2021 to review the harms of nitrous oxide.

We’re used to randomised trials in medicine. Why not apply the same rigour to policy?

A California Supreme Court decision last month reaffirmed that individual school districts lack the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A few weeks before that, officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration confirmed that they had abandoned plans to require COVID-19 vaccination of schoolchildren, and legislation to similar…

Smoking rates have plummeted but vaping is soaring among younger people, sparking calls to restrict access

Dr Clive Dix hit out at the former health secretary in a Telegraph article.

Thailand spent a total of 444 billion baht ($12.8 billion) on public health during the three years of the pandemic to contain the spread of Covid-19 and vaccinate its population, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

LOS ANGELES — With the COVID-19 state of emergency a thing of the past, California health officials on Friday unveiled plans to relax guidance on masking in high-risk settings and to end vaccination requirements for health care workers.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is still working to identify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its director general said on Friday, after a US agency was reported to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by a Chinese laboratory leak. "I have written to and spoken with high-level…

The Omicron variant BA.2.75 now accounts for more than three quarters of infections.

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, fanned the flames of speculation that blame the Chinese government