theguardian.com - I was one of the doctors who met Boris Johnson today. This was a highly staged press event in a newly refurbished hospital ward at Whipps Cross hospital where the prime minister met a few select memb…
vice.com - Approximately 1 out of every 30 migrant kids in government-run shelters are on psychotropic medications, according to a report by a government watchdog — and many of those children appear to have bee…
newrepublic.com - On February 14, 2017, Alaska Governor Bill Walker declared opioid use a statewide “public health disaster emergency.” In the years leading up to this declaration, SEARHC had taken steps toward reduci…
theglobeandmail.com - The link between housing and health is clear: You can’t live a healthy life if you don’t have a roof over your head. Without stable housing, people die younger, suffer more and have more severe chron…
bbc.co.uk - How do you improve the health of an entire town? That was the question facing the former fishing port of Fleetwood, in Lancashire. It's a place where lives have been blighted by illness and people we…
painnewsnetwork.org - “The extent of circulation of these fake pills is unknown; however, they had been consumed by several of the people who died,” Santa Clara Public Health Director Sara Cody, MD, said in a statement. “…
standard.co.uk - Register with your social account or click here to log in Penny Fitzlyon was in hospital to undergo an MRI scan for her multiple sclerosis when she overheard a conversation that made her blood run co…
theglobeandmail.com - Toronto’s medical officer of health is calling on the Ontario government to eliminate non-medical exemptions as a way to address the growing threat of vaccine refusal. Toronto Public Health is also c…
victimfocus.wordpress.com - Is it that time again? Time to shake the field up again? Diagnosing women and girls with personality disorders after they have been abused, traumatised, trafficked, raped, neglected or harmed – is di…
health.clevelandclinic.org - While it has primarily faded from mainstream news, Zika is still active in many parts of the world. Even if the mosquito apocalypse that many feared never actually happened, the risk still largely re…
