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Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city’s eastern suburbs can now order food from cafes and restaurants via the DoorDash app and have it brought to them in minutes by a…

Elder abuse is an emerging public health and safety issue for communities of high-income countries.

The virus threatens to unleash a public health crisis on top of the existing strain from famine and other diseases

While skin cancer has historically been less prevalent in India compared to Western countries, recent trends indicate a concerning rise in its incidence across the nation. Despite its subtropical climate and melanin-rich population, India is not immune to the global surge in skin cancer cases. Understanding the factors contributing to…

THE recent rise in cases of coronavirus in Scotland may have “peaked” according to the latest provisional data, a public health expert has said…

Health professionals argue inequalities, crisis in NHS and pressure in care homes leave Britain vulnerable

The mayor of San Diego County's Imperial Beach described the issue as "the biggest environmental and public health disaster in the nation that nobody knows of"

The UK must never succumb to such shocking complacency again. Planning for the next pandemic must start now, says global public health expert Devi Sridhar

Humans have been processing food for thousands of years. While some processing can increase food’s safety and shelf-life, consuming lots of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is linked to health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.