Public health

A study of 3.9 million adults published today in The Lancet has found that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of...

Health warnings about complications related to Zika virus significantly increased demand for abortions in Latin American countries, according to a...

Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new housing and infrastructure developments could make...

Olivia Remes (Cambridge Institute of Public Health) discusses why women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men.

Selling wine in larger wine glasses may encourage people to drink more, even when the amount of wine remains the same, suggests new research from the...

Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of...

Jane Fleming (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) discusses attitudes to death among the very old.

Some of the final cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone were transmitted via unconventional routes, such as semen and breastmilk, according to the largest...