UK risks ‘growing epidemic’ of lifestyle-related cancers
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…
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Epidemic: Speedboat Epidemiology
Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an…
Epidemic: Zero Pox!
In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the…
Epidemic: Do You Know Dutta?
By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been…
Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices the…
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…
Fresh Air Weekend: Timothy Olyphant; Revisiting the crack epidemic
Timothy Olyphant, Norbert Leo Butz, Victor Williams and…
Epidemic: The Goddess of Smallpox
In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in…
Curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less…
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…
Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities ‘first and worst’
President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine…
‘When Crack Was King’ follows four people who lived through the drug…
In the introduction to…