Public health

Major epidemics such as the recent Ebola outbreak or the emerging Zika epidemic may be difficult to forecast because of our inability to determine...

Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the...

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out...

Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discusses obesity and the influence of socioeconomic circumstances in shaping food choices...

Children should be given more support to enable them to be more active during the winter, particularly at weekends, say researchers from the...

The current focus on financial crises in hospitals diverts attention from the crisis in general practice, argue Professor Martin Roland from the...

Advertisements featuring e-cigarettes with flavours such as chocolate and bubble gum are more likely to attract school children to buy and try e-...

An NIHR-funded study from the University of Cambridge has raised questions about the widely-held assumption that most patients at the end of their...