There’s been a late rise of influenza A, mostly due to the ‘super K’ strain.
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Philadelphia has more fatal traffic accidents than other big US cities, and they’re concentrated in poor neighborhoods.
As alcohol licensing laws face change, new research suggests closing individual outlets can bring noticeable benefits for nearby residents.
Research on how heading to a museum could be good for the brain and general wellbeing suggests that culture fixes are an important resource for public health and social cohesion.
Social media platforms are the easiest place for a curious 16-year-old to find someone selling peptides.
When state health departments, federal health agencies and medical societies diverge, how is an ordinary person supposed to know whom to trust?
A typical weekday in Denmark and the UK looks similar on the surface, but hour by hour, the differences tell an interesting story.
Drug companies are using women of colour and First Nations celebrities in weight-loss campaigns. Not everyone’s happy.
More than 15,000 families in Michigan have received cash support from Rx Kids. Participants say the program helps them pay bills and maintain their health.
Denmark eats more sugar than Britain and invented the Danish pastry, yet far fewer Danes are obese. What are they doing differently?
Antibiotic resistance is not only a hospital problem. Farming, food production and import standards also play a role.
The next phase of the response must not be about deploying more people into communities simply to deliver interventions.
A major new study of 4.2 million people found leisure exercise cuts dementia risk – but manual labour and active commuting may raise it.
Valerie Brown’s experiences with Greenpeace, which she headed when the Rainbow Warrior was bombed, read like a spy novel. But it’s just one way she changed the world.
Tsetse flies move between a broad range of animals. They connect wildlife, livestock and humans in complex transmission networks.
Amid multiple disease outbreaks and intense political pressures, Director Erica Schwartz will need to defend scientific independence.
A 75% cut in tobacco tax won’t make cigarettes as cheap as you might think. Here’s what really helps smokers in a cost of living crisis.
Even with bird flu circulating in Australia, the risk to humans is low. But some groups are still at increased risk.
This week’s Pacific HIV Symposium in Fiji is a response to a highly complex regional crisis, not one that stops at the island nation’s border.
The most important thing for parents to know is that the order does not change which vaccines are available to children and is not based on any new data about vaccine safety.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand