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GAMING DISORDER SET TO BE RECOGNIZED BY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The World Health Organization is looking to add gaming disorder to its International Classification of Diseases... READ MORE›
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THE USA CAN LEARN FROM THESE FOREIGN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Health care for people with low incomes is subsidized by the government... READ MORE›
AS ZIKA VIRUS SPREADS, EL SALVADOR ASKS WOMEN NOT TO GET PREGNANT UNTIL 2018
Authorities have confirmed a dozen cases of Zika virus in the United States... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION 'THROUGH SEX' REPORTED IN US
A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US... READ MORE›
FIRST LOCALLY TRANSMITTED CASES IN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Four individuals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, Florida health officials said Friday... READ MORE›
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Zika alone would never be a public health emergency of international concern, he said... READ MORE›
POSTPONE OR MOVE OLYMPICS, DOCTORS URGE
Igel said he and the others who signed onto the letter will continue ringing the bell about public health fears of the Games remaining in Brazil... READ MORE›
SHOCK FIGURES TO REVEAL DEADLY TOLL OF GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION
We have a public health emergency in many countries from pollution... READ MORE›
HEALTH INSPECTORS USED TO BE PROACTIVE
I work in local government as an environmental health officer, but you probably don't know staff like me exist until incidences occur where you need us... READ MORE›
TEARS AND BEWILDERMENT IN BRAZILIAN CITY FACING ZIKA CRISIS
Now Brazilian officials are investigating thousands of them, and they contend that the mosquito-borne Zika virus is the cause... READ MORE›
PUBLIC HEALTH CUTS WILL LEAD TO MORE SICK PEOPLE, REPORT WARNS
Public health cuts will lead to more sick people, report warns... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA FACES 'WORST-CASE SCENARIO' AS ZIKA OUTBREAK EXPANDS
The Venezuelan government has reported three Zika-related deaths, although it has not provided details... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES END OF ZIKA EMERGENCY BUT SAYS VIRUS REMAINS A THREAT
Officials on WHO's Emergency Committee made clear the Zika still constitutes a global public health threat... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA
Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS CALL FOR SMOKING BAN IN PLAYGROUNDS
This would not only include children's playgrounds but could see no-smoking zones extended to public parks, zoos and theme parks... READ MORE›
MENTAL HEALTH PREJUDICE RIFE IN THE WORKPLACE
This report comes at a time when mental health is in the public health spotlight too... READ MORE›
NUMBER OF STROKES IN UK PREDICTED TO RISE BY 44% IN NEXT 20 YEARS
Obesity can increase your risk of stroke by at least 64 percent ... READ MORE›
RISK HIGHER THAN FIRST THOUGHT, SAY DOCTORS
Zika virus Risk higher than first thought, say doctors... READ MORE›
BOTTLE OF WINE TO COST MINIMUM OF EUR8.63 UNDER NEW ALCOHOL LAW
This Bill addresses alcohol as a public health issue for the first time by tackling price, availability, marketing, advertising, and labelling... READ MORE›
NERVOUS SYSTEM BIRTH DEFECTS 20 TIMES LIKELIER FOR ZIKA-HIT MOTHERS, STUDY FINDS
By contrast, central nervous system abnormalities appeared in 60 infants and fetuses per 1,000 pregnancies when mothers were infected with Zika... READ MORE›
FLORIDA CASES SEEN AS FIRST SIGN ZIKA TRANSMITTED LOCALLY IN U.S.
Florida Surgeon General Celeste Philip said that health officials are not advising pregnant women to move out of the suspected transmission area... READ MORE›
UNCHECKED POLLUTION AND BAD FOOD 'KILLING THOUSANDS IN UK'
The report's publication comes amid heightened concern over the government's commitment to tackling environmental health issues... READ MORE›
'IT'S A FIRST-WORLD LUXURY': FROM ANTI-VAXXERS TO TOBACCO, THE FIGHT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD
Convener of the 15th World Congress on Public Health in Melbourne, Professor Helen Keleher, told SBS News campaigning against vaccinations was a first-world luxury ... READ MORE›
BRAZIL FINDS ZIKA VIRUS IN HUMAN URINE AND SALIVA BUT RISK IS UNCLEAR
The Brazilian researchers at Fiocruz said that their studies had detected the virus in an active form in human saliva and urine samples... READ MORE›
OBAMA SEEKS FUNDS TO FIGHT ZIKA SEES NO CAUSE FOR PANIC
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak an international health emergency on Feb. 1, citing a strongly suspected relationship between Zika infection in pregnancy to microcephaly... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE ZIKA IS GETTING WORSE
Brazilian researchers studying Zika virus say they've found evidence it may have evolved into a new form that's more likely to cause birth defects... READ MORE›
WHAT'S REALLY SCARY ABOUT THE ZIKA VIRUS ARE THE THINGS WE DON'T KNOW
Compared to that other big, scary virus of recent years, Zika may seem relatively tame... READ MORE›
ZIKA LOOMS IN ASIA, TEMPERED BY A FULLER VIEW OF ITS DANGERS
But although the Zika strain circulating in Latin America is originally from Asia, health experts know little about its history on that side of the Pacific... READ MORE›
U.N. HEALTH AGENCY REJECTS RIO OLYMPICS POSTPONEMENT CALL OVER ZIKA
Based on the current assessment of the virus worldwide, WHO said, there is no public health justification for postponing or canceling the Games... READ MORE›
MOSQUITO-BORNE ZIKA VIRUS THREATENING NEWBORNS AND ADULTS IN BRAZIL
Mosquito-borne Zika virus threatening newborns, adults in Brazil... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SAYS A THIRD ADULT HAS DIED OF ZIKA
The government estimates that Brazil may have as many as 1.5 million Zika infections... READ MORE›