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EPA delays new ozone pollution standards until after 2024 election

The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health

The Independent UK

American Lung Association Demands the FDA Mislead the Public About Vaping

Providing accurate information about the risks of different nicotine products is long overdue.

Reason

Turn up in person, get used to rejection and eat more than cornflakes: my advice to university freshers

The odds are stacked against this generation of UK students, but here are a few things that might help, says Prof Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Former mayor teaching Harvard students about how to deal with a pandemic — and with reporters

Lori Lightfoot’s class will include a mock press conference and a simulated community meeting. She’ll discuss the dangers of politicizing a pandemic and how to interact with the media, drawing on lessons learned amid COVID-19.

Chicago Sun-Times

Covid testing to be ramped up for winter

The UK’s public health body will increase Covid testing and surveillance to ease pressure on the NHS this winter, amid fears of a surge in infections.

The Week

Engineering a Sustainable Future: Santunu Barua’s Vision for Infrastructure and Environmental Resilience in the U.S.

Aging roads crack under pressure. Drainage systems buckle under heavy storms. Polluted waterways threaten public health. Across the U.S., infrastructure struggles to keep up with climate change and rapid urban expansion. Without sustainable solutions, these challenges will only grow.

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Simon Schama's history of 18th and 19th century disease outbreaks speaks powerfully to the present

Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to imagine we have just experienced something unique in human history.

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Electricity is not just expensive

The electricity market, an essential service for upholding human rights, is in fact harming the health of New Zealanders and will cost the public health system, writes Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan

Newsroom.co.nz

Big effort needed on UK diet to fight ultra-processed food, say health experts

Concern over public health fuelled by studies linking UPF to raised blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes

The Guardian - UK

BBMP to set up Metropolitan Surveillance Unit to identify potential disease outbreaks

As part of the BBMP’s public health strategy, the civic body is working on setting up a Metropolitan Surveillance Unit (MSU) on the premises of the Public Health Institute (PHI). The unit that will be fully funded by the Centre will help the civic body in putting in place a…

The Hindu

Trump launched an ambitious effort to end HIV. House Republicans want to defund it

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

WEKU

Allow drug testing at festivals to cut deaths, MPs urge ministers

Drop ‘abstinence-only approach’ and focus on public health, report by home affairs select committee says

The Guardian - UK

‘Minor updates’ made to alcohol report following review by statistics watchdog

Public Health Scotland and the Scottish Government has amended a summary document published in June after a complaint by the Tories.

The Independent UK

Another Appeals Court Accuses the FDA of Committing "Surprise Switcheroo"

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit takes issue with how the FDA evaluated Fontem's unflavored vaping products.

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The Independent UK

Alcohol deaths would have been higher without minimum unit pricing – minister

The figures showed 1,276 people died from alcohol last year, the highest since 2008.

The Hindu

Can India’s One Health Mission help tackle the rising number of infectious diseases? | In Focus podcast

In this episode, Dr Rajib Dasgupta speaks to us about the connections between plant, animal, human and eco-health, and how the One Health Mission hopes to work across these sectors to tackle public health issues.

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Balearic Government Eliminates Catalan Language As Requisite In Public Health System

The PP's crusade against the Catalan language continues.

Bangkok Post

Probe ordered into injection error

Trang province's Public Health Office has ordered an investigation into a nurse employed by a private hospital who allegedly injected a sick toddler with adrenaline, worsening his condition.

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‘This is a public health crisis’: how the expansion of Ulez is affecting the daily lives of Londoners

Some welcome the low emissions zone, others question it … and many despise it. But almost everyone agrees something has to be done about air pollution in London

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson is behind the curve in naming top leaders for key city departments

As he marks his first 100 days in office, Johnson has yet to give the public a sign of who he may choose to fill vacant top posts at planning, transportation, housing and public health.

Al Jazeera

Indonesia’s dog meat sellers fear for future after crackdowns on trade

Animal welfare campaigners say dog meat trade should be outlawed due to its cruelty and risks to public health.

The Conversation

With COVID now endemic, modelling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures

Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Suburban Cook County resident first human Illinois West Nile virus-related death of 2023

The individual, who was in their 90s, had an “onset of symptoms” of the virus earlier this month and died shortly after, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Newsroom.co.nz

New Zealand no place for anti-health lobbying

The voices for public health action have historically been swamped by industry opposition and now this imbalance is even worse, says Boyd Swinburn

Salon

Gun violence is a public health crisis

“Public health is about prevention,” says David Hemenway, an advocate for taking on gun violence with public health

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