Iowa joins dozens of other US states in legalizing sales of raw milk ~food drinks Article 1774 words 57 votes
Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and loving difficult people ~lgbt activism history Article 897 words 12 votes
Five locally transmitted cases of Malaria in USA, first since early 2000s ~health Article 921 words 20 votes
Sweden is on course to become one of the world's first smoke-free countries, defined as less than 5% of the adult population smoking ~health Link 15 votes
Social media and youth mental health - The US Surgeon General’s Advisory ~tech social media PDF 5 votes
Why suicide rates are dropping around the world ~health.mental Article 1816 words, published May 12 2023 7 votes
White House launching $5 billion program to speed US coronavirus vaccines ~health medicine Article 1388 words 3 votes
Finland is the European country with the highest proportion of under 25s dying from drugs ~health Article 403 words 6 votes
Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response ~health Article 2189 words 8 votes
Isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress on Greenland – but locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature ~health.mental Article 1502 words 3 votes
To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland ~health medicine Article 8 votes
How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them ~health Article 3841 words 4 votes
Semaglutide weight loss injections to be made available directly from pharmacies in the UK ~health medicine healthcare Article 45 words 6 votes
US Food and Drug Administration moves to ease rules for blood donations from men who have sex with men ~lgbt Article 823 words 7 votes
Norway's golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good – commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent ~sports Article 957 words 3 votes
Denmark's long Covid patients feel abandoned by pandemic response ~health healthcare Article 1025 words 5 votes
Denmark to allow significantly reduced mink production – limits on the number of people allowed to visit farms ~enviro Article 510 words 5 votes
People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised ~life Article 1355 words 5 votes
Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths gripping Britain is only tip of the iceberg ~health healthcare Article 395 words, published Aug 18 2022 6 votes
Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down ~health healthcare Article 965 words 10 votes
World Health Organization declares mpox spread a global health emergency ~health Article 1729 words 16 votes
US doctors treating mpox complain of ‘daunting’ paperwork, obstacles ~health healthcare Article 2160 words, published Jul 15 2022 8 votes
US Food and Drug Administration orders all Juul e-cigarettes off the market ~health Article 404 words 15 votes
Canada eliminates mandatory waiting period for gay men to donate blood ~lgbt Article 342 words 17 votes
In Australia, slot machines are everywhere. So is gambling addiction. ~health Article 2312 words 9 votes
Denmark has unveiled plans to ban the sale of cigarettes and nicotine products to any citizens born after 2010 ~health Article 230 words 5 votes
The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: A 'once-in-an-epoch windfall' ~health medicine Article 4765 words 6 votes
Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic ~health medicine Article 982 words 11 votes
For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction. ~design urban planning Article 12 votes
PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all US insurance plans ~health healthcare medicine Article 1158 words 16 votes
In the tales told by sewage, public health and privacy collide ~science Article 5702 words, published Apr 21 2021 5 votes
Emma describes how she got over her fear of needles to have the covid-19 vaccination ~health Link 6 votes
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully ~health Article 49 words 6 votes