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Germans should emulate southern Europeans' siesta during heat waves, public health group says

Germans should emulate the southern European tradition of the siesta as a way to support workers during the country’s frequent hot spells, according to the head of an association representing public health officers

The Independent UK

Religion shapes vaccine views – but how exactly? Our analysis looks at ideas about God and beliefs about the Bible

Many scientists and public health officials were surprised that large swaths of the public were hesitant or outright hostile toward COVID-19 vaccines. “I never saw that coming,” Francis Collins, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, commented in 2022. Even today, three years after the start of the…

The Conversation

Victoria cracks down on pokies but supporters fear interest groups could hold the winning hand

The centrepiece of the Andrews’ government pokie reform announcement is the introduction of a carded system for users of poker machines.

The Conversation

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This Disease Was The World’s Deadliest Infection Before Covid-19 — Now It's Back

Tuberculosis is on the rise for the first time in decades after Covid-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality.

Inverse

NHS cannot afford to finance pay rises from existing budgets, hospitals say

Social care, prevention and public health services could be cut if government insists on funding 6% pay rise from health budget

The Guardian - UK

Curing America's loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs

A national health advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3, 2023, sheds light on the urgent public health issues of loneliness and isolation.

The Conversation

FDA approves first daily over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill – a pharmacist and public health expert explain this new era in contraception

On July 13, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drugmaker’s application for the first daily over-the-counter birth control pill for people seeking to prevent pregnancy.

The Conversation

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We need new solutions to the crisis in youth mental health

Young people are spending more time on social media, and the resulting mental health problems are the “defining public health issue of our time,” according to a new surgeon general report.

Chicago Sun-Times

Racial discrimination increases risk for childhood obesity: Study

According to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, children who suffer racial discrimination are more likely to have a higher BMI and a wider waistline later in life. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Superspecialty hospital to be set up for pets

KVAFSU to set up Veterinary Superspecialty Hospital, ornamental fish aquaculture, incubation centre for dairy products, Ph.D courses in Animal Nutrition, Masters in Public Health course, Pharmacology course, veterinary college in Gadag, fill 153 non-teaching posts, four-week training course, two-year diploma course, one-year post-grad course.

The Hindu

Bin strikes causing 'public health crisis' in South Gloucestershire

Talks are ongoing between the union and waste firm bosses

Bristol Post

The ethics of recruiting international health-care workers: Canada’s gains could mean another country’s pain

Canadians know we are facing a health workforce crisis, from the estimated 6.5 million who do not have a primary care provider, to those waiting months for medical imaging and hours in emergency rooms. While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency over in May 2023,…

The Conversation

Mid and East Antrim reviewing public health burial policy amid rise in 'paupers funerals'

The council provides a section within cemeteries for burying those without next of kin and without the means to pay for their own burial

Belfast Live

Auditor-General should probe health record 'fiasco', Castley says

The record means performance data cannot be reported.

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The Hindu

Don’t waste the wastewater

Wastewater surveillance for known or new health threats offers many benefits for enhancing public health efforts

The Guardian - UK

Zafrullah Chowdhury obituary

Other lives: Public health activist who used his medical training in the UK to improve access to healthcare in rural Bangladesh

The Hindu

Only one fresh case of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu

One person in Chennai tested positive for COVID 19 on Sunday according to the Directorate of Public Health officials

Salon

Thanks for 50 years of nothing, DEA

The Drug Enforcement Administration has spent half a century worsening public health. It should be abolished

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Belfast Live

Top tips to help you save money on your food shopping

The Public Health Dietitians Group has provided information to help people's money and food go further

Chronicle Live

NHS at 75: Top public health figure warns 'radical action' needed to save NHS

Alice Wiseman - Gateshead Council's director of public health - says the Government needs to put a stop to the influence of "health harming industry"

Irish Mirror

Will 'killer virus' sweeping Europe reach Ireland? Experts give verdict as symptoms listed

Cases of a disease described as 'the current biggest threat to public health' are spreading through Europe. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate of between 10 and 40 percent.

Daily Mirror

Warning over raw milk trend with fears growing over dairy contaminated with deadly germs

Iowa was one of 19 states that prevented the sale of raw milk amid fears it can be "contaminated with harmful germs", according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Irish Mirror

Symptoms of new 'killer virus' as it spreads across Europe and deaths reported

The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever has been identified as the current biggest threat to public health

Daily Mirror

Symptoms of killer virus spreading across Europe - and it's 'highly likely' to reach UK

An urgent health warning has been issued for - what has been described as - the current biggest threat to public health over new cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

The Conversation

Tuberculosis on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public health efforts in the U.S. and globally, tuberculosis cases had been steadily falling for decades.

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