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A recent ground-breaking series of reports in the science journal The Lancet unpacks what commercial determinants of health are, and how they affect public health. It uses a new, broader definition of the determinants:

It’s now more commonly known that alcohol and tobacco use make us ill. Less known is that just four industries account for at least one-third of global preventable deaths. These industries are: unhealthy processed food and drinks, fossil fuels, alcohol and tobacco. Collectively they cause 19 million deaths every year,…

LOS ANGELES — With just days to go before the publication of his already-bestselling title, “The Book of Animal Secrets,” Dr. David Agus said he was surprised to learn that at least 95 passages appeared to be copied from other uncredited sources, sometimes word for word.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the wake of federal health officials’ harshest criticism yet of their anti-COVID vaccine views, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Gov. Ron DeSantis persisted Thursday in claiming the “mRNA jabs” are worthless at best and even dangerous, despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary.

A picture is emerging of a healthy lifestyle which is key to the condition’s prevention – exercise, being sociable, and looking after your ears

Families in rural towns still faced with empty shelves, purchase limitations and fewer options of infant formula

Letter: The data is not available, but we have reason to doubt it, writes Dr Giulia Piccolino of the Infant Feeding Alliance

Letters: Dr Tony Waterston says milk formula companies’ sponsorship of paediatric associations has a corrupting effect and hinders breastfeeding

The protection against Covid-19 from being previously infected lasts at least as long as that offered by vaccination, one of the largest studies conducted on the subject said on Friday. Ten months after getting Covid, people still had an 88 percent lower risk of reinfection, hospitalization and death, according to…

Police killings of any sort account for nearly 5% of all homicides, with at least 1,192 people killed by law enforcement in 2022

The world should "calm down" about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.