EU plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat that is responsible for 25,000 deaths and a loss of €1.5 billion in the EU every year. The EU...
Children in cars at risk from air pollution
We have changed the law to ban smoking in cars to protect our children, but where is the law to save them from toxic air...
What killed the residents of the Grenfell Tower?
What killed so many of the residents of the Grenfell Tower? In the weeks after the tragedy in London, it’s becoming clear that it was more...
It is impossible to avoid the junk food industry
How do we reeducate ourselves regarding our eating habits? Poor diet today contributes to more death today than physical inactivity, drinking and smoking. Learn more...
Boosting empathy-based medicine
Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Existing digital...
PE is not ‘silver bullet’ for inactivity crisis
Physical Education (PE) is not a 'silver bullet' to solve the inactivity crisis among the young, according to researchers from Leeds Beckett University. In fact,...
A&E departments failing young people with alcohol problems
Nine of out of ten Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments are failing to identify young people with alcohol problems, preventing them from getting the vital...
A complete healthcare systems failure
Last week I delivered a keynote lecture at the Public Health Collaboration annual conference in Manchester where I explained to an audience of over 200 made up...
Airborne aluminium exposure
The dangers of airborne aluminium exposure may yet be felt by the Grenfell survivors and nearby residents of Grenfell Tower. To see why, we need...
Water treatment could be damaging DNA
Water treatment is vital to maintain human health but a method widely used in developing countries could be damaging the DNA of those drinking it....
