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Public Health Agency launches consultation on services for those bereaved by suicide

"Given the impact that suicide has on families and communities, the PHA recognises how important it is to regularly review services that are in place to provide support"

Belfast Live

Editorial: We know soot pollution is deadly. The EPA needs tougher standards to protect public health

The recent announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the federal government plans to strengthen the nation’s air quality standards for deadly fine particle pollution, or soot, is, to some degree, a sign of progress. The Trump administration, after all, ignored the science and refused to update these life-saving…

Los Angeles Times

Spanish health workers march against Madrid regional govt

Several thousand health workers have returned to the streets of Spain’s capital to protest what they claim is the dismantling of Madrid’s public health care system by its conservative regional government

The Independent UK

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Tens of thousands of Spanish health workers protest for better future

Tens of thousands of health workers protested in Madrid on Sunday over what they say is the destruction of the public health system by the conservative regional government.

Reuters

The story of Britain’s pools and leisure centres is one of neglect, decay and the lies of levelling up

As the NHS buckles and public health plunges, our cheap and accessible fitness facilities are being shuttered, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Centre to offer paid vaccination service to foreigner visitors

Paid coronavirus vaccination services for foreign visitors are now available at the Bang Rak Medical Centre in Sathon district, says the Department of Disease Control (DDC).

Bangkok Post

Redding, California, Uses Public Health Red Tape to Ban Sharing Food with Homeless

Is it good public health policy to deny charity to people experiencing homelessness?

Reason

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Building bridges to the future

Infrastructure, climate change and public health are all connected: Consider this story of two highway projects

Salon

COVID keeps surging, but life is returning to normal everywhere you look. When will the pandemic really be over?

It’s not over, even though most people seem to think it is, public health professionals say.

Fortune

Anutin: Chinese tourists key to recovery

More Chinese tourist arrivals will be of major benefit to Thailand, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday, as arrivals continue to pick up since China eased travel restrictions on Jan 8.

Bangkok Post

Covid vaccine uptake in Black community ‘impacted by conspiracy theories and racial inequality’

Experts have called for better public health messaging to help drive higher vaccination rates among ethnic minority communities

Evening Standard

‘Its jaws locked onto me’: How dog attacks became Britain’s unrecognised public health crisis

Canine attacks, including fatal incidents, are rising. But why - and what exactly should be done about them - are much debated issues

The Independent UK

GOP: Making smoking great again

Masculinity gets toxic — literally! — with the GOP majority's plans to stink up the halls of Congress with tobacco

Salon

Bills to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’ died in Congress – with Republican help

Lobbying industry flexed muscle to ensure bills that aimed to set stricter standards on PFAS compounds went nowhere

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Child vaccination rates, already down because of COVID, fall again

Child vaccination rates dipped into dangerous territory during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were shuttered, and most doctors were only seeing emergency patients.

Los Angeles Times

LA County COVID-19 deaths hit new winter high. Why?

LOS ANGELES — The number of COVID-19 deaths reported weekly in Los Angeles County has hit the highest point of the season, underscoring the continued deadly risks of a disease that has ripped through the community for nearly three years.

Bangkok Post

Free Covid tests for ill visitors

The government is offering free Covid-19 tests to ill visitors and will vaccinate foreign tourists who request the service at “reasonable prices”, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to tackle health inequality

The new project is aiming to bring communities and public organisations together

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Bangkok Post

Study linking asthma and cooking gas stirs debate

PARIS: New research that links cooking with natural gas to around 12% of childhood asthma cases has sparked debate about the health risks of kitchen stoves, as well as calls in the United States for stepped-up regulation.

Fortune

Biden just extended the COVID public health emergency as the highly transmissible Kraken variant drives U.S. cases up

Some public health experts predict that Wednesday’s extension will be the last.

Reuters

U.S. extends public health emergency status for COVID

The U.S. health department on Wednesday extended the COVID-19 pandemic's status as a public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans to continue receiving free tests, vaccines and treatments.

Los Angeles Times

With opioid overdoses still on the rise, more regular people are carrying Narcan

SAN FRANCISCO — Monica Clayton was standing in line at a Burger King on Market Street in downtown San Francisco just before 7 a.m. when a frantic man ran into the restaurant.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Delay in making naloxone an over-the-counter drug to counter opioid overdoses was deadly

It's been six years since a startling story in The New York Times detailed how fatal opioid overdoses were tearing through rural regions of the United States "like a plow through soil." The report came as the nation was beginning to grasp that it faced the deadliest wave of drug…

The Independent UK

Japan, S. Korea protest China visa stoppage amid COVID spat

Japan and South Korea defended public health restrictions on travelers from China on Wednesday, a day after China stopped issuing new visas in both countries in apparent retaliation

Tribune News Service

Lost sleep and jangled nerves: The rising onslaught of noise harms mind and body

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mike Thomson’s friends refuse to stay over at his house anymore.

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