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A new report found "stark inequalities" in alcohol-related hospital stays and deaths in Scotland.

An update from Public Health Scotland said this was the total of as of noon on Sunday.

Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu itself.

Video showed Cecelia Benavides, a teaching assistant at Freedom Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, striking one disabled student and pushing a rolling chair into another. A public health attendant at the school kept a journal detailing numerous incidents in which Benavides and teacher Cylmeera Gastav abused disabled children under their…

DEATHS related to alcohol in Scotland are five times more likely in the most deprived groups, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).

The country registered 1,714 more Covid-19 cases during the previous 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday, 70 fewer than Monday and the lowest daily number since May 10, 2021.

Public Health Scotland shared new research on Tuesday regarding alcohol consumption, pricing, and harm in the country in the years since the start of the covid pandemic

Public health workers and other civil servants are demanding salaries in US dollars as inflation hits 132 percent.

Greater Manchester public health chiefs warned about the difficulties in judging coronavirus trends now free mass testing is no longer available

'Obviously we’ll be guided by public health advice in that regard'

There were 1,784 more Covid-19 cases and 18 fatalities recorded on Sunday, the Public Health Ministry reported on Monday.