The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Cardiologist highlights the importance of improving primary health care and public health management

For all the images of ski resorts and snow-capped peaks, Colorado is experiencing shorter winters and hotter summers that are increasingly putting people at risk for heat-related illnesses. Yet until this year, the National Weather Service hadn’t issued a heat advisory for the Denver metropolitan area in 13 years.

Consider this for an illustration of just how much society has changed in the past few generations: New data shows that, for the first time ever, more Americans use marijuana than tobacco. It’s positive news from a public health standpoint. Whatever the legitimate concerns about the U.S. becoming a pot-head…

Inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has turned out to be the catastrophic moral failure the World Health Organization’s director-general warned about at the beginning of 2021.

There were 27 more Covid-19 fatalities and 994 patients admitted to hospitals on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday.

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The biggest changes to public health protocols on cruise ships since cruising restarted last summer during the pandemic are taking effect in early September, when most cruise lines leaving from U.S. ports will allow unvaccinated passengers. Many of them also are loosening coronavirus preboarding testing requirements.

"With excess winter deaths, cold homes and people having to pay for fuel over food are all risks," says one public health chief as alarm bells sound that people may be pushed into mental health crisis by skyrocketing energy prices

The country registered 1,273 new patients admitted to hospitals and 26 more Covid-19 related fatalities on Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Monday.

Public Health Scotland has told local authorities that some areas where bins have overflowed may have to be decontaminated, and warned that piles of rubbish could also present a fire hazard.

The country registered 1,769 new inpatients admitted to hosptials and 27 more Covid-19 related fatalities, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday.