One in seven five-year olds are not fully protected against MMR, warns PHE Around 90,000 five-year-olds in England are not fully up to date with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to data from Public Health England.…
UK not providing ‘best practice’ level smoking cessation support, says WHO report The UK is not among 23 countries providing smoking cessation services at the “best practice” level, according to a report from the World Health Organization.…
Substandard and falsified medicines: global and local efforts to address a growing problem Substandard and falsified medicines pose a risk to public health all around the world.…
Appointment availability is behind huge number of missed measles vaccinations, PHE expert says A senior epidemiologist at Public Health England has said that concerns about vaccinations are unlikely to be behind figures from international children’s charity UNICEF, which show that half a million children in the UK have not received their first vaccination against measles.…
England hits WHO 2020 hepatitis C target three years early Deaths from liver disease related to serious hepatitis C fell by more than 16% between 2015 and 2017, according to data published by Public Health England.…
From The Archives: The creation of the World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates its 70th anniversary on 7 April 2018.…
Pharmacy academic tells UN forum of need for gender parity science prize Speaking at the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science Forum in New York, Oksana Pyzik said measures to redress gender bias in public health and medicine could include establishing an award for gender parity in the sciences.…
Flu vaccination coverage has been declining in Europe, WHO report reveals Seasonal flu vaccination coverage among high-risk groups has fallen in Europe, a study has found.…
WHO publishes first AMR surveillance report The World Health Organization has published its first Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) report.…
Target to eradicate cholera by 2030 is ambitiousThis letter is in response to ‘Boost in availability of oral cholera vaccines is a potential game changer in the global fight against cholera’ in the November 2017 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal. The author has weighted the article towards the production of a more transportabl…
