Tag: Public health

NEW YORK — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to ...

The Social Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen again became the biggest in parliament with 27.5% of votes, the party’s best election in more than two decades. In ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned that reported invasive fungal infections increased significantly among hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a release alongside its recently released list of priority ...

Extreme weather from climate change triggered hunger in nearly 100 million people and increased heat deaths by 68% in vulnerable populations worldwide as the world’s “fossil fuel addiction” degrades public ...

A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community’s drinking water for years has resigned — and is asserting that the levels had actually been low for ...

This past winter, as Covid cases were beginning to decline, state health officials in New York were expecting a respite after two exhausting years and a chance to refocus on ...

WASHINGTON — At-risk people who received a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine in U.S. efforts against the virus appeared to be significantly less likely to get sick, public health ...

U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the count Thursday as ...

This year has seen an unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox sweeping across the globe, and the disease appears to be “behaving differently” from before, experts told Newsweek. Monkeypox is a rare, ...

A 24-year-old man in Uganda‘s central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died. “We want to inform the country that we have an outbreak of Ebola which we confirmed yesterday,” ...