At a "practice of last resort," pediatricians prioritize allaying parents' vaccine concerns without hardline dismissals.

Last week Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, sprouting links to autism – which have been definitively disproved by scientists and health organisations around ...

Experts worry that health officials' use of 'shared decision-making' in new vaccine guidance distorts the concept's meaning and disregards the importance of evidence.

The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.

As Australia’s childhood vaccination rates continue to fall, Papua New Guinea’s outbreak shows what can happen when herd immunity is lost.

This week, Prianka Srinivasan arms herself with a burner phone and a fake name, and sets out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works.

Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over ‘terrible decisions’ on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs

Millions of civilians in East Darfur have lost their primary access to medical care following a hospital attack.

Discover insights from Julie Leask on how to tackle vaccine hesitancy.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...

Studies promoted by the US president have shown small associations between a common medication and autism. A new analysis checked those results.

Alexander Downer told senior colleagues the H5N1 strain of bird flu could mutate into a pandemic ‘with potentially devastating consequences’ for Australia and the world * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Health officials warned the Howard government that Australia might need to close schools and shut international borders in the event of a global influenza pandemic, nearly 15 years before the arrival of Covid-19. Previously unreleased cabinet papers made public by the National Archives of Australia on Thursday show planning for an influenza pandemic reached all the way to the national security committee of federal cabinet in October 2005. The discussions, two years after the Sars viral respiratory disease spread across Asia, presaged much of the response as Covid-19 spread around the world. Continue reading...

The war on public health is a battle to the death.

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Debunking is an effective means to mitigate the impact of health misinformation. However, even after receiving a corrective message, misinformation of…

After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.

Dr Tom Frieden served as director of the US health body under Barack Obama until 2017 and warns about cuts under Donald Trump

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