The outbreak of Zika virus in South and Central America, and the Caribbean, has attracted widespread media coverage with particular focus on an apparent increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly (a smaller head than expected which can …
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed including: Taking the opportunity to reduce the alcohol we drink The UK …
Flu is now circulating and there have been a number of national media articles recently about ‘swine flu’ cases in the UK. This blog explains why swine flu is now considered a normal, seasonal flu strain.
The role of healthcare providers is to investigate, treat and care for people who are ill, but they also have huge potential to act as public health organisations at a time when prevention and early intervention have a crucial role …
PHE is involved in many aspects of looking after the health of the public and one of those is preventing and reducing the risk of disasters across the globe. By disasters I mean occurrences like disease epidemics such as Ebola and …
Last week Cancer Research UK released a press release showing that bowel cancer is more likely to be diagnosed at the earliest stage if it is picked up by screening. This used new PHE data that, for the first time, …
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed including: Health Matters We've published the third edition of Health Matters …
There can be no doubt that the food we eat and produce has a substantial impact on our planet. Estimates suggest that food and drink production and distribution contributes 20% of UK carbon emissions every year and is the leading …
We hope that through the breadth of ‘Health Matters - Harmful drinking and alcohol dependence’ content, we have made the case for investing in effective alcohol treatment services, but a question may remain; what tools and resources are available to …
Welcome to the third edition of PHE’s Health Matters, a resource for public health professionals, which brings together important facts, figures and evidence of effective interventions to tackle major public health problems. In this edition we are turning our attention to …
