In this blog post, we share more information about what mpox is, the different clades, the key symptoms and how UKHSA is working with partners to respond to the outbreak.
...being ill: wearing a wetsuit and swallowing water during the swim. We considered that the link between wearing a wetsuit and illness may have been due to inadequate cleaning and...
...way of identifying and characterising clinically important organisms, such as those that cause infections and especially human disease. However, in the modern world, microbiologists now rely increasingly on the extraction...
Obesity can sometimes be hard to spot, even though it’s all around us. Take parents, who think their child is about the right weight, even when the child is actually overweight or obese – this happens to nearly one in …
...Conditions such as alcoholic liver disease where alcohol is the sole cause are known as alcohol-specific or wholly alcohol-attributable conditions and their alcohol-attributable fraction is 1.0 (100 per cent). For...
...Adult Social Care and Public Health teams and with Hanover Housing Association, aims to establish an integrated approach to maximising the health and wellbeing of older people. LifeLines volunteers run...
In the past month, windstorms and flooding have been knocking at our doors more frequently than we would like. Like an unwelcome guest, severe weather brings with it many problems and often ones that are not always easily visible. It …
English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”. The more of it we have, the better informed and equipped we are to address any issues and drive improvements. And this too is true for health. Within Public Health …
Food poverty, or insecurity, is a personal tragedy for many people. More than 350,000 people had to turn to emergency food banks between April and September this year, according to...
...quality assurance”; and “intellectual property and innovations”. By the nature of our work, we possess specialist facilities and provide specialist services like training, manufacture of highly specialised drugs and vaccines,...
...to every child born in the region to have the best start in life. We didn’t take long to agree that the first few months and years of a child’s...
