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Health Coalition Aotearoa is calling for evidence-based prevention policies around harmful products in our newly launched call-to-action,Prevention Brief 2026

In observance of Diabetes Awareness Week, we are reminded that diabetes has quietly become one of the country’s most serious public health threats. Ranked among the leading causes of death among Filipinos in 2024 and 2025, diabetes affects millions of people and contributes to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, and lower-limb amputations.…

On July 15, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated guidance on reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. The report updates and adds to the first of these guidelines published in 2019

During a routine doctor’s visit in 2015, I approached my medical provider about prescribing preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to me to reduce my risk of acquiring HIV. She had no idea what I was talking about. To my dismay and utter shock, my provider at the time had not even heard of the essential, mainstream…

D.C.’s overdose prevention machines, which have operated since 2023, have recently come under scrutiny after an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) meeting where commissioners worried a machine was leading to public health concerns for the neighborhood

Measles in babies is a highly contagious infection caused by the measles virus, which belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family. It can cause symptoms such as a red, blotchy rash, a fever above 100.4°F (38°C), and increased irritability

Almost 100,000 people took part across 71 participating hospitals in all Italian regions, alongside over a thousand farms, dozens of regional institutions and health authorities, working together with doctors, nutritionists and volunteers to uphold a simple principle: prevention starts at the dinner table. This is the outcome of “Campagna Amica per la Salute”, the initiative…