Posts relating to PHE Priority 3: Protecting the country's health
HIV remains a major source of harm to people’s health, much of which is avoidable. There are more HIV tests being performed in England than at any time in the...
Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …
For those who haven't heard of it, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites, with between 900 and 1000 confirmed cases each year in the UK. It...
...of the virus and helping to protect the rest of the community. You only have to watch a child with a runny nose to see how easily they can spread...
...meat, and especially rare steaks, am I really willing to argue for significant changes to people's diet, not only to increase fruit and veg consumption (obviously good for our health,...
