The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Transparency advocates condemn arrangement as ‘appalling’ while health department refuses to say how much consultancy was paid

Patients’ groups, civil society organisations, and public health experts voice concern over draft Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023, which could hurt people's rights to file pre-grant opposition to patents

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, will likely face increased heatwaves, droughts and severe flooding over the next 67 years. These changes will pose risks to public health and infrastructure. They’ll also be felt most acutely by the city’s most vulnerable residents: those living in informal settlements.

Syphilis rates in Texas continue to climb, alarming healthcare workers who see the highest increases among pregnant people and newborns. A shortage of treatment is complicating efforts to combat it.

The HIV program launched in 2019 with the goal of cutting new infections nationwide by 90% by 2030

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham thinks violent crime gives her a license to rule by decree.

Chicago public health officials have said the CDC approval was all they needed to “begin the rollout” of the vaccine, which will be free for all city residents. “We already have the vaccine in Chicago,” Dr. Geraldine Luna, medical director for the Chicago Department of Public Health, said Monday.

Dealers and users could face jail time and unlimited fines under new measures which are expected to come into force by the end of the year.

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across the globe.