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More than half of the global population do not have safe sanitation. What is the best way to go about changing this?
We need to ensure cancer research addresses what matters most.
The tax bill that just cleared the Senate contains sweeping changes to nearly every facet of American life.
Is it necessary to control exposure to electromagnetic waves by limiting the number of relay antennas? Yes, but that’s not the only thing.
What if we treated climate change as a health problem rather than an environmental one? There are lessons to be learned from the successful public health campaigns against smoking.
Incontinence is frighteningly common.
Coin rubbing, a traditional treatment for the common cold, is still widely used by modern Indonesians despite criticism that it is not rational.
Researchers have found a way to measure the impact of air pollution during 19th-century England on the public’s health.
There is an urgent need for affordable cancer treatment services, lower drug costs, better equipped facilities, favourable national cancer policies and specialist doctors in Kenya.
They provide more than warmth.
New research shows that having a child in foster care is often harmful to a mother’s mental and physical health.
Patient safety grabbed the attention when plans were mooted to move post-op people out of hospital and into private homes. But the project also moves important work into the shadows.
A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
A staggering 70 per cent of female inmates are back in prison within two years of their release. Basic health and dental care could help change this, according to new research.
How many healthy years of life do you have ahead before you become unhealthy – and then die? One model tries to find the answer.
The population is aging in Canada and around the world. It’s time to focus our attentions on optimal aging instead of grimly tallying the burdens of growing old.
Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
The Labour Party’s promises are a start – but we need to go further. It’s a public health crisis.
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