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The UK is facing ‘a growing epidemic’ of preventable cancers caused by smoking, drinking, obesity and sunburn, research has argued. The study, undertaken by consultancy Frontier Economics…

Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an…

In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the…

By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been…

The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the world has witnessed a tenfold increase in obesity in children and adolescents between 5 and 19 years…

Timothy Olyphant, Norbert Leo Butz, Victor Williams and…

In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in…

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 report reflects…

President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine…

In the introduction to…