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News Hour: Warnings that e-cigarettes are luring teenagers into smoking tobacco are unfounded, a major Public Health England (PHE) study has found. Data involving 60,000 11 to 16-year-olds revealed there is no evidence that “vaping” the electronic...

News Hour: Three large trials published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) show that screening for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors may not reduce mortality and cardiovascular disease in the...

News Hour: UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, and partners have completed the first round of a vaccination campaign in response to the recent outbreak of vaccine-derived polio in Syria. The campaign provided vital protection against the...

News Hour: Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced an agreement with Lakeland Health to integrate the Philips IntelliVue Guardian Solution with automated Early Warning Scoring (EWS) at all three of the Lakeland...

News Hour: Although many afflictions have been attributed to vitamin D deficiency, bone disease (i.e., osteomalacia) is the clinical entity with the strongest causal link to vitamin D deficiency. In this study, Australian researchers sought to...

News Hour: As life expectancy increases, so too have the number of years that older adults spend with substantial care needs, now reaching an average of 3.0 years for women and 2.4 years for men aged...

News Hour: Global policies on access to highly hazardous pesticides – commonly ingested in acts of self-poisoning and suicide in rural Asia – should focus on national bans, rather than safe storage, according to two studies...

News Hour: Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic disaster, International Development Secretary Priti Patel warned today, as she urged the international community to follow the UK’s push to stem the country’s cholera outbreak –...

News Hour: Colorectal cancer death rates among younger white Americans have been steadily increasing in recent years, according to a research letter in JAMA. Using data collected from death certificates, researchers found that among U.S. adults aged...

News Hour: Updated research presented at this year’s World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis in Anchorage, Alaska, USA (8-9 August) shows that the universal hepatitis B vaccination program introduced for all newborn Alaskan children in...