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Consulting giant McKinsey & Company will pay $650 million to settle US criminal charges that it collaborated with Purdue Pharma to intentionally misbrand opioids, worsening a public health crisis, officials announced Friday.

The recently released Royal Commission of Inquiry report about New Zealand’s COVID response highlights the harmful impact of misinformation and disinformation on public health.

Record dengue cases in 2024 linked to climate change, urging preventive measures for public health.

Prisons minister Lord Timpson said the use of drugs in jails needs to be seen as a public health problem.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global eradication of polio. Within a decade, one of the three poliovirus strains was already virtually eradicated — meaning a permanent reduction of the disease to zero new cases worldwide.

Contraband is brought in to prisons in ‘children’s nappies’ and through the use of ‘drone drops’ by organised criminal gangs, MPs heard.

New York state this week appealed the dismissal of a pollution lawsuit against soda giant PepsiCo, accusing its single-use plastic packaging of posing a scourge on waterways and public health.

In recent years, the opioid crisis has taken center stage as one of the most pressing public health concerns. Among the many troubling behaviors associated with opioid use, "nodding off" is often misunderstood and underestimated. For those directly ...

George Soros' philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, will continue to fund human rights movements around the world

The EPA bans trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), marking a significant step toward protecting public health from cancer-causing chemicals.