Public Health & Policy

16+ min ago   (1133+ words) When public health researchers want to know whether diseases such as COVID-19 or polio are circulating in a community, they can look for genetic evidence in wastewater. Entomologist Dana Price wondered whether the same principle could be applied to mosquitoes....

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (197+ words) Millions of people eat at restaurants across New York every day, whether they're grabbing a breakfast sandwich on the way to work, meeting friends for lunch or enjoying a night out. Most expect the food they order to be safe....

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (151+ words) A week-long anti-polio campaign will begin across Karachi on Monday, September 21, with health authorities targeting around 2.5 million children under the age of five.Commissioner Karachi Syed Hassan Naqvi said all arrangements for the campaign, which will continue until September 27, had…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (409+ words) Up to ₹50 lakhs | Starts at 9.99% Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and chief scientist of Zoho, has sparked a debate on X after sharing a post that questioned vaccine safety research and alleged that doctors who raised concerns have been "silenced." Vembu highlighted…...

13+ hour, 22+ min ago   (389+ words) Henry Ford declined to appear despite being assured the opportunity to have both the first and last word. So I found myself in the unusual position of defending Henry Ford’s own study—the study Henry Ford itself should have been…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (265+ words) Wellness clinics market IV drips as ways to detox, brighten skin, or boost energy and immunity, but the CDC and FDA say contaminated glutathione injections at clinics in Texas, Washington, New York, and Florida made dozens of people sick. The…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (339+ words) President Donald Trump said in an oval office address on September 18, 2026 that childhood vaccines should be given in smaller doses and should be separated over longer periods of time. He stated, "instead of a child going in and having a…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (159+ words) A special polio immunization campaign targeting nearly one million children under five years of age in Rawalpindi district will begin on Monday, September 21, as part of a broader drive across 13 Punjab districts.District Health Authority Chief, Dr Ehsan Ghani, said…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (123+ words) KUWAIT CITY, Sep 20: Kuwait’s Public Authority for Food and Nutrition (PAFN) has issued 34 violation reports and shut down a non-compliant food facility during an inspection campaign in the Capital Governorate. Inspectors found several violations, including the sale of food unfit…...

4+ hour, 24+ min ago   (349+ words) Published - September 20, 2026 06:27 pm IST - Bengaluru The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) has taken steps to establish blood repositories named ‘Rajiv Gandhi Rakta Kosh’ at all district centres in Karnataka. The initiative aims to encourage students and teachers to…...