There we all were naively thinking the Olympics would bring pride, excitement and tourism revenue to London this summer. But what none of us has properly accounted for, according to six new papers published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, are the health risks to visitors of stampedes, heatstroke and mass infections. Events ranging from Barack Obama’s

Leading voices in medicine say current policies not going far enough to prevent deaths from alcohol-related diseases.

Leading voices in medicine tell MPs current policies not going far enough to prevent thousands of deaths from alcohol-related diseases every year.

EU healthcare is under extreme financial pressure and important choices regarding the diseases on which we focus and the resources we allocate to their management need to be made, according to MEP Cristian Busoi. The Romanian liberal MEP has set up a new task force in the European Parliament this week to address the issue. More »

The number of specialist centres monitoring animal diseases could be reduced, a Scottish government review has recommended.

Whether the issues are terrorism, AGW, contagious diseases, the movies of Charlie Sheen (that was a joke), today's advocates of Big Government often look to the Transnational solution. Let's have one government! No more hiding places for bad people! As readers might recall, I have written a few times about tax havens and the importance of the freedom of people to migrate not just their p...

Two hundred people, most of them elderly, will die in Britain of cold-related diseases every day this winter, according to calculations by Britain’s leading advocacy group for old people, Age UK. “The fact that these ‘excess’ deaths occur in winter makes it clear that they are due directly to cold,” the organisation’s research manager, Philip

There are many improvements to be made before REACH can fulfil its public health promise to fight diseases such as cancer, obesity, diabetes, impaired fertility and behavioural disorders, writes Paul Whaley from the Cancer Prevention and Education Society. More »

This is a surprise: The government’s “nudge unit” wants to encourage the use of smokeless nicotine cigarettes, banned in many countries around the world, in an attempt to reduce the numbers killed in the UK by smoking diseases each year. The Cabinet Office’s behavioural insight team – better known as the nudge unit – wants

The mad claim that 165million Europeans suffer from ‘mental illness’ confirms that normal emotional states are now seen as diseases.