In this blog post, Charlotte Head explores how wastewater testing could provide new insights into tobacco and nicotine use at a population level. She explains how wastewater-based epidemiology works, ...

Researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) will present work from the Local Health and Global Profits programme at the Prevention Research Conference 2026 in Birmingham on 4-5 Mar...

AbstractBackground. Tobacco and nicotine use is a significant global public health threat, increasing the risk of many cancers and cardiovascular disease.

Researchers from SARG are set to showcase their work at the University of Sheffield's School of Medicine and Population Health Research and Innovation Meeting 2025.

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Children in Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from antibiotics medicines no longer working, a study suggests.

Alcohol is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States (US). Prior research has demonstrated that alcohol consumption and rel…

More than 35,000 people die of antibiotic-resistant infections in Europe every year, and cases have risen across the region since 2019

Introduction Investigations of drinking practices often rely on cross-country comparisons of population averages in beverage preferences, drinking volumes and frequencies. Here, we investigate withi...

As of 29 October, the iconic mountain was still without snow, marking the longest period since records began 130 years ago